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From: "Dan Volker" <dlv@ga*.ne*>
To: "techdiver" <techdiver@aquanaut.com>
Subject: WPB Dive Tragedy- Update. One body just suurfaced..
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 12:22:49 -0500
 A body floated up above the 300 foot deep area off of Jupiter this morning.
It is now being taken to the Medical Examiner, for ID etc.,.
Our guess is this would be the student , Mike Elkins, as it was found with
no tanks on, but with wet suit intact. Our assumption at this time, is that
Andre and/or John Claypool, must have tried to remove the tanks, in order to
get the heavily weighted body of Elkins off of the bottom.  Since they never
made it up, the body stayed on the bottom untill now, where gas inside or
other effects, caused it to surface this morning.
This would indicate that we will find the other two bodies and Elkin's gear,
exactly in the area we are looking.
I'll provide an update when we've heard from the Med. Examiner. And we will
be out again on Saturday to complete the grid. We should zero in Saturday.
Dan


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Dan Volker
South Florida Dive Journal
http://www.sfdj.com/
The Internet magazine for u/w photography and mpeg video




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