Gords question was not directed to me, but as a mother of two children, If one where missing, and they where searching a lagoon for him, I'd be there making sandwiches, making coffee, offering warm towel and soup to the divers...as well and pushing them to keep searching.
If any are familiar with the Anna Waters case, (here at WS), I have brought up her story on a few occasions here on the Maddie pages. The LE and about every one involved originally thought she had drown in a swift moving creek several hundred feet from the fenced in back yard of her home. For weeks and weeks her husband, and older children along with organised search teams searched that creek. Annas mother stayed put. She called volunteers to help search, made food, and kept the search going as long as humanly possible....WITHOUT A DIME of charity. 35 years later, her family is still searching for her. Annas Mother has just recently had a book published about their search...(after 35 years) hoping that proceeds can pay for some ongoing search expenses...like ads in the news paper of a potential suspect...Nope, not a single armband or t-shirt sold