Unknown Coasties searching Lake Erie for missing diver - Cleveland

[DandyDon]

Another sources said "Crews are reportedly looking about six miles off the coast of Cleveland"

U.S. Coast Guard looking for missing 72-year-old diver

The U.S. Coast Guard was called out Saturday afternoon to help find an untethered diver who went missing in Lake Erie just east of Cleveland.

www.news5cleveland.com

The U.S. Coast Guard was called out Saturday afternoon to help find an untethered diver who went missing in Lake Erie just east of Cleveland.

According to authorities, the diver was exploring a shipwreck at the bottom of the lake for more than two hours when help was called in.

Coast Guard vessel Marine 21 responded to the area to look for the man.

No further information has been provided.

 

[Learner Diver]

Treacherous waters. I hope they find him in good stead.

 

[Marie13]

I don’t know of any charter boats that go out of Cleveland. Will have to look it up. But there are plenty of people with their own boats.

 

[rhwestfall]

Dang! Not a good way to start the season ..

 

[MidOH]

Near 0 vis.

Great Lakes are always underestimated. Scariest waters in the world.

 

[Knockneed Man]

Updated, deceased has been retrieved:

“The 72-year-old diver's body was found by the Coast Guard around 7:45 p.m.”

 

[Jim Lapenta]

Near 0 vis.

Great Lakes are always underestimated. Scariest waters in the world.

Depends on location and depth.
3 years ago, we had 75 feet of vis at 120 feet on the Crystal and Tradewind in Erie.
When I was doing my Helitrox cert in 2007 there was a day that the vis at 115 ft on the Betty Hedger was like diving the Florida Springs. Gin clear.
Shallow in Erie? Yeah, vis is not great. The eastern end of the Lake tends to be deeper and has better vis once you get below 70ft or so.
I've got maybe 100 dives in Erie and never thought of them as scary.

 

[tursiops]

Scariest waters in the world.

Seems unlikely, or are you just stating this as hyperbole?

 

[Marie13]

Near 0 vis.

Great Lakes are always underestimated. Scariest waters in the world.

There’s nothing in there that can eat you. I’ve done a decent amount of Great Lakes wreck diving. Yes, 3ft chop is no fun (about the limit for dive boats, FYI for people who don’t dive the Lakes), but the wrecks are incredible. I don’t know if I’d call the Lakes the scariest water lin the world, but they do command respect. The chop is what sent a lot of boats to the bottom. Distance between waves is much less than on the ocean and you never get a break from it.

 

[DandyDon]

"The Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner’s Office has identified the man as 70-year-old David Michael VanZandt of Lakewood. The man’s body was recovered from the water at the East 9th Street pier, according to that office.

"VanZandt was the director and chief archaeologist of Cleveland Underwater Explorers, or CLUE, which researches, explores and documents shipwrecks and “submerged cultural heritage” in the Great Lakes, according to its website."

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