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Doug Hempstead -
It's one of the least popular types of specialized police work: dead body retrievers.
Of the 69,200 cops in Canada, only 110 are police divers.
This week more than half of them showed up at a frozen quarry near Ottawa to train in far more favourable conditions than many of them are used to.
Ottawa rookie cop Alana Fong sits on a towel-topped, waterproof kit case with her feet propped up on a small one. Wrapped in blankets she waits in a tent for colleague Walt Leshman to surface.
The burly Newfoundlander is far more experienced; he's been a police diver for four years.
Fong is about to make her second-ever ice dive.
In fact, she's the only female police diver in Ontario and one of only a handful in Canada.
She was fast-tracked into the unit - diving has always been something that interested her - having only been hired by Ottawa Police in May.
That's because they needed her.
"There's not a lot of people that want to do this job," says Const. Brent MacIntyre, of the Ottawa Police dive, marine and trails unit.
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