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Feb 9, 2006 12:54 am US/Central
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Search To Continue With Underwater Cameras
by Mary Tan
St. Cloud, Minn. (WCCO) ―
Search crews in St. Cloud used an underwater camera Wednesday to help them figure out what happened to a missing college student.
Twenty-one-year-old Scot Radel disappeared almost a week ago after leaving a downtown St. Cloud bar.
Searchers have finished looking on land and are now focusing on the Mississippi River.
The St. Cloud police chief said dogs picked up a couple of different scents near the water, but after a full day of searching the river, there was no good news to report.
While divers continued to search, Radel's family members put new pictures of Scot all over downtown St. Cloud, hoping for tips into his disappearance.
Jeff Radel, Scot's brother said the family just wants answers and pleaded with the public to share any information they have.
"Call us," he said. "Leave an anonymous tip. Leave a note somewhere. Just help us find him."
His sister Stephanie Radel continued to post posters around town.
She said, "The other ones were black and white and we made so many copies of them that the picture kept getting a little more distorted each time. So we just decided to do one consecutive poster that will be everywhere ... the same one."
Emergency workers from St. Louis County brought down an underwater camera to help in the search.
The underwater cameras are run by a joystick and they are capable of diving about 60 feet. They transmit crystal-clear pictures back to the surface.
Since ice on the Mississippi was unstable, crews were forced to drill holes every time they moved. It was a painstaking process.
Search crews also investigated new footprints in the snow.
Sgt. Brent Baloun of the St. Cloud police said, "We just want to say that we've double checked and did as much as we possibly can just to see what they are."
By the end of the day, the search turned up nothing. Flowers by the Mississippi riverfront displayed a symbol of the Radel family's continuing hope.
The search is scheduled to continue Thursday morning at 8:30.
St. Louis County said they are bringing down a second underwater camera Thursday to help in the investigation.
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