My wife and I were diving at a spot called Placer Cove in Lake Mohave yesterday. It's about 10 miles south of Boulder City, Nevada. We were in the water for about 45 minutes when the low visibility and my poor navigation skills got us going in the wrong direction. We turned around and got going in the right direction when we came upon the body of a young white male in about 25 - 30 feet of water. We immediately surfaced and made sure we knew where the location of the body was. There is no cell phone coverage in the cove so I had to drive back up the dirt road a bit before I could call the ranger station. The rangers and an investigator showed up about an hour later and I pointed out the location of the body. We packed our things and left and I don't know anything else about the person we found. The local TV news had a brief story about it and there was a very short mention of it in the paper. There was a very obvious thermocline right around 24 feet where the water temperature dropped into the 60s, otherwise we would have been deeper and probably missed the body.
Body Found in Lake Mohave
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The Chairman
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You know, I hope that I never find a body underwater. Too spooky! Glad that you are OK.
Nice reaction. You did what you should have done. Kudo's
Wow! Good job with your reaction. Scary stuff. Even as a former PSD (and hopefully future one again), the thought of finding a body even when searching for one was never pleasant.
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Thats some scary stuff, their always finding bodies in the lake by me, think they had 10 last year.
MeiLing
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That is pretty freaky! Good job with notifying the authorities!
Sounds like you did exactly the right thing.
Even for us Public Safety Divers it's never a fun task but we have the advantage of knowing what we're looking for. If you have a hard time sleeping for a couple of nights don't think you're different- it's a normal reaction for a few days after. Just remember that thanks to you the family now knows what happened to their loved one.
If you want to talk PM me or drop down into the Public Safety divers forum, there are many folks who have been through this before and would be happy to talk to you.
Tom
Even for us Public Safety Divers it's never a fun task but we have the advantage of knowing what we're looking for. If you have a hard time sleeping for a couple of nights don't think you're different- it's a normal reaction for a few days after. Just remember that thanks to you the family now knows what happened to their loved one.
If you want to talk PM me or drop down into the Public Safety divers forum, there are many folks who have been through this before and would be happy to talk to you.
Tom
This is what was in our local news: http://www.fox5vegas.com/news/13733114/detail.html Of course they got some of the facts wrong.
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