***Update*** Vehicle Pulled From Pond

****UPDATE**** Officials say they have found the vehicle that ended up in a pond off of Maysville Pike. The announcement was made just after 1:30 Friday afternoon. It will take some time to bring the vehicle to the surface. Zanesville Highway Patrol Lt. Matt Boyd says if he had to speculate he would say the people involved in this accident are from Zanesville. More to come. ****UPDATE*** 

Authorities began the recovery mission to find the vehicle that crashed into a pond across from the Maysville Regional Water District building off of US 22 Thursday night. 

During a briefing, Friday morning at the Newtown Township Fire House emergency responders decided to bring in a crane with magnets to help them in locating the vehicle trapped beneath the ice. The crane will also serve another purpose. 

"The crane idea is something we came up with because it’s so hard to get down to this site and we felt with the crane he can reach out and lower equipment and people in," said Muskingum County Emergency Management Director Bo Keck.  

Because of the dangers of diving into cold water and under will not enter the water until the car has been located. Using pictures and what they know about the vehicle’s path of travel they’re concentrating their search on an area of the pond where a tunnel runs beneath US 22. The tunnel was once used for train travel. 

Once the vehicle is located it will be taken from the water before anything else takes place. 

""If the victims are still in it we’ll leave them in the vehicle. We’re not going to try and get them out again. We’re looking at diver safety at this point," explained Keck. 

The Muskingum County Coroner will decide once the vehicle’s located if they’ll impound the entire car or remove the victims once the car is removed from the water. The State Highway Patrol is working to determine who exactly may be in the vehicle. 

Keck said in weather like this diver’s can only be in the water for 10-15 minutes at a time. The dive teams at the scene Friday are from Falls Township, Columbus and Fairfield County. All have worked together before, which Keck said should help. A tent has been set up to keep responders warm and fed during the search, which could take hours.

Keck also said it’s hard to tell what else could be in the water or if any other vehicles lie beneath.