Diver recovered after 13 years

[EnjoyTheSilence]

We found a body here at just above 400ft and were quite prepared to recover it - it had been there 7 years - but the widow showed no interest and no-one could be found to pay the costs of recovery. So it's still there.

Nice widow...

 

[peterbj7]

Well, she'd moved on and remarried and maybe it just brought back too many memories. People are buried at sea anyway so what's the difference? Not many people are ever likely to come across the body, not even if they go that deep. I'm told there are 6 others down there (at the bottom of the Blue Hole in Belize) but that's the only one I've seen. Recovery is a very costly business - I was prepared to do it at no profit, but even so it would have cost many thousand dollars.

 

[ScubaSteve1962]

Nice widow...

Well, she'd moved on and remarried and maybe it just brought back too many memories. People are buried at sea anyway so what's the difference? Not many people are ever likely to come across the body, not even if they go that deep. I'm told there are 6 others down there (at the bottom of the Blue Hole in Belize) but that's the only one I've seen. Recovery is a very costly business - I was prepared to do it at no profit, but even so it would have cost many thousand dollars.

After so many years and you have moved on with your life, why would you want to disturb their resting place? To me it's the same as the men that were left on the USS Arizona, or any other ship that's out there.