11-13-2006, 03:34 PM
[#505000]Heh, you get used to dead bodies if you work with them long enough. [cool] (except the smell, ick!!)[/#505000]
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[#505000]I don't do much in the realm of search and rescue, but I sometimes have lunch with those who do, and we have interesting discussions about this very topic. I don't know about the temps in the Berry, and how those would affect the search, but I know in Utah Lake they can figure out when they will find a body based on water temps. They can tell you when the body will float to the surface and they then recover it, if the divers haven't found it first.[/#505000]
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[#505000]Again with as cold as the Berry is this time of year I don't know if the decomposition would be fast enough, or warm enough to cause a "floater". [/#505000]
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[#505000]Either way I would be nice for the familes involved to have a bit of closure. I would imagine O4T that the crawdads would pick a corpse pretty clean given enough time. [/#505000]
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[#505000]I've also wondered (very much doubt it though) if the two missing from the boat accident made it out of the lake, but in such a bad state of hypothermia they wandered off into the woods (sage brush) somewhere before succumbing to exposure. [/#505000]
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[#505000]I suppose time will tell. Either way my heart goes out the the familes of the missing.[/#505000]
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[#505000]I don't do much in the realm of search and rescue, but I sometimes have lunch with those who do, and we have interesting discussions about this very topic. I don't know about the temps in the Berry, and how those would affect the search, but I know in Utah Lake they can figure out when they will find a body based on water temps. They can tell you when the body will float to the surface and they then recover it, if the divers haven't found it first.[/#505000]
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[#505000]Again with as cold as the Berry is this time of year I don't know if the decomposition would be fast enough, or warm enough to cause a "floater". [/#505000]
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[#505000]Either way I would be nice for the familes involved to have a bit of closure. I would imagine O4T that the crawdads would pick a corpse pretty clean given enough time. [/#505000]
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[#505000]I've also wondered (very much doubt it though) if the two missing from the boat accident made it out of the lake, but in such a bad state of hypothermia they wandered off into the woods (sage brush) somewhere before succumbing to exposure. [/#505000]
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[#505000]I suppose time will tell. Either way my heart goes out the the familes of the missing.[/#505000]
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