bryanmc57
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Ray is never annoying, except when he is, and even then he's basically Stewart .5...
Very odd question about diving... and things you may find while doing so... O_o
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Ray is never annoying, except when he is, and even then he's basically Stewart .5...
CptTightPants21
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Ray is never annoying, except when he is, and even then he's basically Stewart .5...
Ouch. Ray is going to make you pay for that one...
drrich2
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Okay, that is creepy! I've been around plenty of dead bodies on land (in the course of education), but feeling around on one underwater...whew!
Richard.
I own tow trucks so have helped get dead bodies out of cars. No problem, no issue, so long as they hadn't been there too long. Finding one underwater in low vis would bother me. A guy at the local volunteer fire dept. asked if I would be willing to search underwater for them. I said no without hesitation and it had nothing to do with my lack of training.
Truk.
I've recovered a couple of bodies while diving, both times it was individuals recently lost (within minutes to a couple of days). Bodies decompose quickly in warm water (and no I'd rather not discuss the details). If you are diving wrecks that went down many years ago, your chance of finding bodies is practically nil (unless another diver was recently lost while diving the same wreck). Bones are a rare possibility, and of course, whenever a seaman has been lost when the vessel went down, please treat the entire wreck as a tomb and be very respectful while aboard and around the vessel.
Eric Sedletzky
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There was the body of a tech diver discovered in Lake Tahoe a few years back in 227 ffw (give or take a few feet) by two tech divers.
He'd been there for 17 years and was pretty well preserved. That would be a little challenging to deal with.
The thought of finding a fresh body as a recovery diver lets say in a car sunk in a swamp in almost zero vis, fishing around by feel finding something and pulling it to get a better look with your light when all of a sudden 6" away from your face you are confronted with a corpse eyes wide open and mouth agape. That is what good horror movies are made of.
He'd been there for 17 years and was pretty well preserved. That would be a little challenging to deal with.
The thought of finding a fresh body as a recovery diver lets say in a car sunk in a swamp in almost zero vis, fishing around by feel finding something and pulling it to get a better look with your light when all of a sudden 6" away from your face you are confronted with a corpse eyes wide open and mouth agape. That is what good horror movies are made of.
jbomb001
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I am a psd and have been called out for 4 bodies in the last 3 years. Yes normally you feel for them and don't see them till they are within feet or inches of you. Now I also dive wrecks and have found absolutely no body parts ever on the ones I've dived. And when doin psd. I expect to find a nasty corps on a wreck dive no.
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smellzlikefish
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Some wisdom a grizzled old sea captain once imparted on my included this gem that popped out randomly one day: "If you have to find a body, it is better if it is fresh."
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