Missing Scuba's diver's body found......missing since 1981!!
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Missing Scuba's diver's body found......missing since 1981!!
Don't know where else to put this on SB.
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.
Wow what a surprise these divers received. But it's a story you tell for a lifetime, not everyone can tell such a story. Hmm St. Lawrence river sounds like a very interesting dive site - is there much to see besides dead divers and zebra mussels? I wonder if the diver tried to dive too deep on pure O2?
Wow what a surprise these divers received. But it's a story you tell for a lifetime, not everyone can tell such a story. Hmm St. Lawrence river sounds like a very interesting dive site - is there much to see besides dead divers and zebra mussels? I wonder if the diver tried to dive too deep on pure O2?
Nice diving all year around - this includes ice diving. There are a ton of wrecks to visit. The mussels have significantly improved visibility. An interesting deep wreck is the Roy A. Jodrey. There is rumored to be a body there too. At first I thought this thread was about locating this particular diver.
Oxygen tanks should be green! I should be a detective!
Actually, not all are green. Back flying for the AF, our high pressure bottles in our escape gear were indeed green. Our low pressure walk-around bottles were yellow.
Wow what a surprise these divers received. But it's a story you tell for a lifetime, not everyone can tell such a story. Hmm St. Lawrence river sounds like a very interesting dive site - is there much to see besides dead divers and zebra mussels? I wonder if the diver tried to dive too deep on pure O2?
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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 reportedly were searching for a shipwreck.
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