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From the Watertown Daily Times
Remains found of diver believed missing for decades
January 23, 2006, 11:02 AM EST
COLLINS LANDING, N.Y. (AP) _ The remains of a scuba diver believed to
have been missing for decades were found in the St. Lawrence River.
Recreational divers found the remains, covered with soot and zebra
mussels, on Sunday in the narrows between Wellesley Island the American
bank of the river, about 20 miles north of Watertown.
State Police Investigator Michael Marvin said it will likely take a
couple of days, if not more, to identify the body. He said what is left
of it _ a skull and upper torso bones _ appears to have been preserved
by the cool water.
"We may have some possible DNA, but that's up for the doctor to make
the call," he said.
A trio of divers were on their way back to the surface when they came
upon a tubular object sticking up out of river's floor, about 140 feet down.
"I almost passed it up, but it looked out of place," diver John Krake
told the Watertown Daily Times.
After scraping off zebra mussels, he found a yellow oxygen tank.
"I thought, 'My goodness, I've found somebody's gear here,"' he said.
He tugged on the tank and very quickly realized it was more than scuba
equipment. He saw bones in a partial wet suit, which was entangled in a
diving line.
The Times' archives lists one instance of a missing diver from the '80s
in that area. Brett W. Schirmer, 21, of Rochester, went missing in
August 1981. Schirmer and a companion were searching for a ship wreck.
From the Watertown Daily Times
Remains found of diver believed missing for decades
January 23, 2006, 11:02 AM EST
COLLINS LANDING, N.Y. (AP) _ The remains of a scuba diver believed to
have been missing for decades were found in the St. Lawrence River.
Recreational divers found the remains, covered with soot and zebra
mussels, on Sunday in the narrows between Wellesley Island the American
bank of the river, about 20 miles north of Watertown.
State Police Investigator Michael Marvin said it will likely take a
couple of days, if not more, to identify the body. He said what is left
of it _ a skull and upper torso bones _ appears to have been preserved
by the cool water.
"We may have some possible DNA, but that's up for the doctor to make
the call," he said.
A trio of divers were on their way back to the surface when they came
upon a tubular object sticking up out of river's floor, about 140 feet down.
"I almost passed it up, but it looked out of place," diver John Krake
told the Watertown Daily Times.
After scraping off zebra mussels, he found a yellow oxygen tank.
"I thought, 'My goodness, I've found somebody's gear here,"' he said.
He tugged on the tank and very quickly realized it was more than scuba
equipment. He saw bones in a partial wet suit, which was entangled in a
diving line.
The Times' archives lists one instance of a missing diver from the '80s
in that area. Brett W. Schirmer, 21, of Rochester, went missing in
August 1981. Schirmer and a companion were searching for a ship wreck.
