The list of open dive sites - not just caves - where people have died previously would be a pretty long one; I know I've dived a few, seen the monuments
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BDSC
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Makes me wonder if anyone will ever know for sure what happened to the guy if a body is never found.
lamont
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Kevin Carlisle
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Just in time for Vortoberfest too!!
If the authorities know there's still a body in there, letting people know is the decent thing to do. Not only does it have biohazard potential, there's the ick factor involved, too.
How do you prove a negative?
They have found no trace of a body. They cannot "know" there is a body in there, unless they find a trace. Our finest cave divers have searched every accessible inch. I believe there is not a body in the cave.
That doesn't mean there won't be a ghost, though . . . .
Blue Sparkle
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This can happen with any water death/drowning (if that is actually what happened; and we do not know this for sure). If someone drowns on a lake or river, for example, and the body is not found, then once any investigation is done, the waterway (section) is back open to the public. There is no specific "alert" to tell people that there may be a body around, or even that they might find a body, even though they normally do turn up at some point in the future and oftentimes it is recreational folks who find them.
It would seem less likely that someone in the cave (especially the "general public") would "stumble on" a body than it would for the same thing to happen on a river or lake. And it would seem that the strong flow would eliminate any biohazard, for all practical purposes.
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There is more "bio hazard" in the creeks we played in as kids, flooded streets, etc, than in Vortex, assuming there is a corpse back in the system. Something so far not even the best in the biz have been able to confirm, which says a whole lot IMO.
Beyond that, I'd bet very few who dive vortex springs in the future will be unaware there 'may be' a body in the cave system - signs posted or not.
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