00:00So we came in just after nightfall last night. We waited to see what would happen yesterday and we came
00:06in. We had a briefing with Mr. Allen Stewart and the team of people in Tobago at 6 a.m.
00:13this morning and I'll come back to that in a short while and we're here on the ground searching.
00:18Members of the hunter's search and rescue team were seen combing the coastline along Goodwood Bay in Tobago on Thursday.
00:26Team Captain Valance Rambarat said, according to the team's calculation, there is a high possibility of sighting baby Angelo Tobias
00:34Plaza.
00:35Now, we've had two experiences with drownings with toddlers since this team was started.
00:41Alan Ramdiel, age 5, Ottawa Village, Mero, and Kimani Francis, age 2, who was found drowned in a river.
00:50Now, we pride ourselves on analytics, right?
00:55The first thing we look at is after the briefing with Tima, we found that there was a high possibility
01:03of a sighting.
01:04And the second analytic we looked at is that we did a walk from the house to the beach in
01:11toddler-style fashion and it took one minute and 10 seconds.
01:16The distance is 200 feet and not 3,000 meters as bandied about.
01:22He said a toddler walking to a beach is possible.
01:25The possibility of a toddler walking to the beach in this instance is also possible, highly probable.
01:33And therefore, we're working with these two analytics that we've done for the morning.
01:38We're doing some beach patrols.
01:40We're studying the ocean currents.
01:42We have the latest current figures and stats and we're conducting beach patrols.
01:48He said closure is near in the matter.
01:51Okay, how do you feel about the situation?
01:54Well, the thing is, the only feeling we really have when we search is to get closure for families.
02:00We stay always above all the noise.
02:05Our strength really is in field searching.
02:08We go to marine searches on the coastlines as well.
02:11And we stick to that.
02:13We don't get, we don't hear any noise that's circulating around us.
02:16Later, Angelo Tobias Plaza went missing from his Goodwood Tobago home on Monday night.
02:22Since then, land, sea and aerial searches have been conducted.
02:27On Wednesday, members of the Defence Force joined in land searches in collaboration with the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service.
02:35The Hunters Search and Rescue Team join rescue and search operations on Thursday.
02:40Elizabeth Williams, TV6 News.
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