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Specially-trained otter comes to Pensacola to assist in missing person case

PENSACOLA, Fla. -- Splash, an Asian small-clawed otter, made an appearance in Pensacola on Monday. He performs a job few animals in the world can do. Trained for underwater human remains and evidence detection, Splash works with Peace River Search and Rescue -- the only organization in the world training otters for this type of mission. "We use the dog first, and the dog stays with us and does the alert," Peace River Search and Rescue Michael Hadsell said. "He tells us where the area is, and then we'll come back and get in our dive gear, load up the otter, and then we'll go back out and dive it and find the evidence, or whatever it is we're looking for down there." "He goes down there, finds it, he comes back and tells us, and then he takes us back down," he added. Splash has been deployed 27 times nationwide, with six confirmed finds. "His initial scent training took about two to three months, and then after that it was all conditioning in the environment," Hadsell said. "Learning how to deploy from the boat, learning how to deploy from the shoreline, whether I was in the water with him or I was just not going to go in the water with him and deploy him from the shoreline." He was in Pensacola on Monday morning, assisting in the search for missing 37-year-old woman Robin Whitmire. Police searched near the Mahogany Mill boat ramp after receiving a lead. Pensacola Police later announced Monday afternoon that Whitmire had been located safe in a different location. No further details were released about Whitmire's situation, other than police saying there was no foul play involved. "Anytime investigators get a lead or any kind of information that points us in a certain direction, we're gonna go check that out," Pensacola Police Department officer Mike Wood said. A K9 did alert in the Mahogany Mill boat ramp area, but investigators say it wasn’t strong enough to deploy Splash into the water. "There was some indication there, but not enough to put the otter to work," Wood said. READ MORE: https://weartv.com/news/local/search-... #news #florida #pensacola #otter ---------------------------- READ MORE STORIES: https://weartv.com/ Stay up to date with our social media: WEAR on Facebook: / weartv WEAR on Twitter: / weartv WEAR on Instagram: / weartv WEAR on TikTok: http://tiktok.com/weartv Subscribe to WEAR on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHiv... For all today’s trending local and national news, visit: https://weartv.com/ WATCH newscasts live and other live video, visit: https://weartv.com/watch Have a news tip? Send it directly to us: Email us: news@weartv.com Call the Newsroom: 850.455.4599