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TN Search Team Joins Effort To Find Natalee Holloway

Early reports suggested that along with individuals from EquuSearch needing to return to their jobs, team members and search dogs were taking a beating from the terrain.

Only a week or so into the endeavor some of the cadaver dogs had to be sent home as a result of damage to their paws from walking through the Island growth and over the difficult terrain.

Looks like they're getting some extra help.

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. -- A team of divers and a dog trained to find bodies was set to fly to Aruba on Tuesday to join the search for an Alabama teenager missing since May 30.

TN team joins search for Alabama teen missing in Aruba

WSMV-TV CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. -- A team of divers and a dog trained to find bodies was set to fly to Aruba on Tuesday to join the search for an Alabama teenager missing since May 30.

Three divers, the search dog and her handler were requested by Aruban officials to help in the search for 18-year-old Natalee Holloway of Mountain Brook, Ala. and for clues to her disappearance, said Jimmie Canfield, a member of the Tennessee Search and Rescue Dog Association.

"Their resources are running out. Some of the searchers have to go back to their jobs," Canfield said. "They need a new wave of resources."

The Chattanooga-based search team is expected to assist in the Holloway investigation for six days. Divers Dale Hicks and John Scruggs are experts in collecting evidence during dives.

Holloway disappeared at the end of a five-day trip with 124 other students following high school graduation. Numerous searches by Dutch marines, Aruban investigators and volunteer rescue groups have failed to turn up any trace of her.

The investigation into what happened to Holloway is focusing on a Dutch minor after a judge ruled police could detain him an additional 60 days but ordered the release of two Surinamese brothers held in the case.

A judge ruled Monday there was sufficient evidence against 17-year-old Joran van der Sloot to keep him jailed while prosecutors built their case, but ordered brothers Deepak Kalpoe, 21, and Satish Kalpoe, 18, released. All three were arrested on suspicion of murder, but they have not been charged.