Polish diver recovered from 90 meters - Attersee lake, Austria

[DandyDon]

See original story before translation at: Leiche von polnischem Taucher im Attersee geortet

Fireman divers should have found a person at a depth of 90 meters.
Steinbach am Attersee - The corpse of a Polish diver, missing since Saturday afternoon in the Attersee, should have been found. In a new search on Monday, firefighters discovered a person about 90 meters deep, police Oberösterreich confirmed a report of the ORF radio Oberösterreich on Tuesday. The 49-year-old had not dived on Saturday after a dive with two comrades at the so-called black bridge. The man had led the group, his two colleagues had given him a light signal, and indicated that they would rise again. The missing diver is supposed to return the signal and have told his colleagues that he will go further down. When he did not show up later, the two of them were alert. Again and again serious accidents The black bridge is a popular but dangerous diving reef. In this area of the lake, serious and fatal accidents have occurred over the past years. - derstandard.at/2000062411118/Leiche-von-polnischem-Taucher-im-Attersee-geortet

 

[Texasguy]

Reef in a lake?

 

[Steve_C]

Reef in a lake?

It looks like a computer translation with lots of odd words and phrases. Could be ledge or something else.

 

[StefinSB]

Reef in a lake?

The original German article doesn't say "reef" at all. It refers to the area as a popular diving "spot".

 

[Rechno]

Some original article in German:

Wasserretter suchten nach vermisstem Taucher im Attersee
Vermisster Taucher von Einsatztauchern der Cobra aus dem Attersee geborgen | laumat|at

He was not recovered by firemen but divers of the police´s COBRA unit.
The first article states that they were diving at a depth of 54m when they separated.
Rumors is, that they were diving on air.

The "black-bridge" is a (in)famous dive spot at the lake, with a wall going down to about 100m. Approximately 25 people died there already.
Recently they are encountering some accidents which the blame on the fact that people travel a long distance to get to the lake and, exhausted and dehydrated have the mindset: "since we are here, we are gonna do a dive now." However, I do not say that that was an issue during this accident.

There is always talk, that officials want to close the site for diving, so the recent accident might have an impact.