Missing Diver at Maceday Lake

[fins]

For all you folks from SE Michigan:

This morning on the way into the office WWJ-950 news reported that the Oakland County dive team was at Maceday Lake in Waterford searching for a missing diver. The report mentioned that 10 members from the Sea Otter dive club went out on a dive. Upon returning to shore, only 9 divers were present.

That's all the report said and I'm not writing this to speculate on what may have happened, hence the post here in GLWC as opposed to posting in accidents and incidents. However, I was wondering if anyone else out there knew any more facts about what occured.

 

[fins]

Here's the latest from WWJ-950's website

A search has resumed for a 51-year old diver from Waterford Township who is missing in Maceday Lake. The diver was one of a group of ten divers who went for a dive last night. Nine others surfaced. The Oakland County Sheriff's Department says the divers were from two dive clubs, the Sea Otters and Underwater Aquatics.

 

[Tiny Bubbles]

Search continues for missing diver at Maceday Lake
Tom Greenwood / The Detroit News

Divers from the Oakland County Sheriff's Department will return to Maceday Lake today to search for the body of a missing diver. The diver, who is from Waterford, was part of a small group of divers who were exploring the lake at about 7 p.m. Wednesday.
After about 45 minutes, the group resurfaced only to realize that one of their divers was missing. An air and ground search was made, said Waterford Sgt. Mark Giroux, who described the missing man as an "advanced diver." A dive team from the sheriff's marine division joined in the search.
Located in western Waterford, Maceday Lake is popular with divers because its depths range to 100 feet.

http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060713/METRO02/607130437/1009

 

[Barracuda2]

Search continues for missing diver at Maceday Lake
Tom Greenwood / The Detroit News

Divers from the Oakland County Sheriff's Department will return to Maceday Lake today to search for the body of a missing diver. The diver, who is from Waterford, was part of a small group of divers who were exploring the lake at about 7 p.m. Wednesday.
After about 45 minutes, the group resurfaced only to realize that one of their divers was missing. An air and ground search was made, said Waterford Sgt. Mark Giroux, who described the missing man as an "advanced diver." A dive team from the sheriff's marine division joined in the search.
Located in western Waterford, Maceday Lake is popular with divers because its depths range to 100 feet.

http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060713/METRO02/607130437/1009

I HATE READING ABOUT THESE THINGS!!

 

[DudleyNMU]

I agree with that...

 

[fins]

Unfortunately it looks like it's time this thread was moved to the accidents section:

Divers with the Oakland County Sheriff’s Department marine division recovered the body of a 51-year-old man, who went missing in Maceday Lake in Waterford Wednesday night.

The man, a Waterford resident, was scuba diving with a group Wednesday and disappeared shortly after 8 p.m., said Sgt. James Karr, with the sheriff’s department.

At 2:30 p.m., the man’s body was found on the west side of the lake, 107-feet down, said Oakland County Undersheriff Mike McCabe. He said there was a lot of debris on the lake bottom, such as old boats, bicycles and realtor signs, which made finding the man difficult.

McCabe said that at that depth, it is completely dark and less than 40 degrees. He said the fact that lake is so deep is what attracts recreational divers.

McCabe said that the man, whose name has not yet been released, but is expected to be today, was a member of a diving club and was at the lake with about 10 people. When his fellow divers surfaced, they realized he was missing and called police.

The sheriff’s divers started searching after 8 p.m., stopped at 10 p.m. and resumed the search at 7 a.m. today. Two sheriff’s deputies were taken to get oxygen at Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak on Wednesday, after experiencing tingling feelings during their dives to find the man, McCabe said.

Maceday Lake is bounded to the north by Andersonville Road, to the west by Nelsey Road and to the south by Williams Lake Road. Dixie Highway is to the east.

 

[netmage]

Anyone have a name yet? We have a fairly large contingent from the Michigan area... I'd hate to learn it was one of our own....

-Tim

 

[scubapolly]

Always terrivle to hear these things.

But I have to ask, why didn't his buddy notice he was gone DURRING the dive?

Just a reminder of the importance of keeping an eye on your buddy.

 

[UnderSeaBumbleBee]

I posted a link to another article under the accidents thread on this matter. The Freepress has released his name in their article.

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060713/NEWS12/607130502&SearchID=73250651125597

Some of the other divers were taken to the hospital for uncontrolled rapid ascents from depth accourding to one article that I read. You can read that article under the accident thread.

My thoughts and prayers go out to the families.

 

[Zippy14]

has a name been released yet? I am not able to find it