Dead Vancouver scuba diver had been missing 26 years - Polidicks

[quote]It had been 26 years since anyone last laid eyes on well-known wheelchair scuba diver Peter Devoe, who failed to resurface after a 1985 family dive at Cates Park in North Vancouver. Devoe, who was 29 when he disappeared, was finally recovered in the Burrard Inlet by a pair of commercial fishers in October. Coroners said Wednesday they identified his remains by the jewelry he wore and telltale marks on his bones from a car accident. His body was surprisingly well-preserved within his full-body scuba suit, despite floating in the inlet for almost three decades. His remains were found just west of where he vanished during a dive with his brother on March 13, 1985. His body never floated out of the bay, and was anchored down in the calm waters by his weighty equipment, Coroner Stephen Fonseca said. Speaking from her home, Robin Devoe recalled the day her brother-in-law went missing after heading out for a dive with her husband. “Peter just never came up,” she said. “It hasn’t hit home yet. He was a great person, he competed in wheelchair sports, was really concerned about other people in wheelchairs.” She said Devoe founded a 20-member wheelchair scuba diving club in 1983, and helped others with disabilities discover a new way to enjoy life. “For somebody with spinal cord injuries, it’s the freedom of being away from a wheelchair,” she said. Kathy Newman, executive director of the B.C. Wheelchair Sports Association, recalled her first meeting with the athlete three decades ago. “He was like a role model for other people that wanted to get involved in wheelchair sports,” she said, adding Devoe was admired for his endless support to sports for youth with disabilities. “That’s why we decided naming the Peter Devoe Memorial Award after him,” Newman said of the scholarship fund that was established the same year Devoe went missing. “He was a fantastic person.”[/quote] [url=http://www.torontosun.com/2011/12/07/dead-scuba-diver-had-been-missing-26-years]**SOURCE**[/url] .

Man, I would hate to have seen that when they pulled him up.

Wasn't there a hit song about this guy? Rolling In The Deep I think it was called...

Fuck thats creepy, I've been to Cates Park too. Kind of interesting to know I was within distance of a missing body.

That must of been horrible to pull up. I've heard of similar stories, in Anglesey on a coastal tour in a lifeboat we were told stories about loads of people who died and never washed up, the thought of how in a cave that no one has checked out, or even possibly near a normal beach there may be a dead body just floating or sitting there makes me cringe.

I'm sure by now it would've been just skeleton, but still that would be pretty erie to see, and still disturbing. Skeleton in rotten old diving gear.

The truth always surfaces.

[QUOTE=Andokool12;33618958]I'm sure by now it would've been just skeleton, but still that would be pretty erie to see, and still disturbing. Skeleton in rotten old diving gear.[/QUOTE] If you had read the article you would have known otherwise [quote]His body was surprisingly well-preserved within his full-body scuba suit, despite floating in the inlet for almost three decades[/quote]

[QUOTE=Dierag;33618934]That must of been horrible to pull up. I've heard of similar stories, in Anglesey on a coastal tour in a lifeboat we were told stories about loads of people who died and never washed up, the thought of how in a cave that no one has checked out, or even possibly near a normal beach there may be a dead body just floating or sitting there makes me cringe.[/QUOTE] You might find the stories from divers about the MS Estonia interesting then. A few weeks after it sank, they sent a team down, and one of them reported back that, as he was going through a corridor, he found "bits of flesh" floating around him in the water. There's a video on YouTube from it, I think. And a couple of bodies were visible in the background at certain points of the expedition. [editline]7th December 2011[/editline] Here's the bridge video, where three bodies are found. You can see the shadow of one at 2:03. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDyQ8WYOg28[/media] It would be a nightmare to get lost in there.

[QUOTE=Dierag;33618934]That must of been horrible to pull up. I've heard of similar stories, in Anglesey on a coastal tour in a lifeboat we were told stories about loads of people who died and never washed up, the thought of how in a cave that no one has checked out, or even possibly near a normal beach there may be a dead body just floating or sitting there makes me cringe.[/QUOTE] That's kind of like what freaked me out for so long in Half-Life 2. When you got into the sewers, there was a spot with a dead body floating in the water, and on a pile of mud across from it was about two more dead people sitting there. [editline].[/editline] Turns out there was only one sitting on the pile. [t]http://i.imgur.com/u1RQJ.jpg[/t] [t]http://i.imgur.com/4yxOB.jpg[/t]

[QUOTE=Ninja Duck;33619268]That's kind of like what freaked me out for so long in Half-Life 2. When you got into the sewers, there was a spot with a dead body floating in the water, and on a pile of mud across from it was about two more dead people sitting there.[/QUOTE] They weren't dead, they were just resting from injuries. [editline]7th December 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=LunchboxOfDoom;33619013]You might find the stories from divers about the MS Estonia interesting then. A few weeks after it sank, they sent a team down, and one of them reported back that, as he was going through a corridor, he found "bits of flesh" floating around him in the water. There's a video on YouTube from it, I think. And a couple of bodies were visible in the background at certain points of the expedition. [editline]7th December 2011[/editline] Here's the bridge video, where three bodies are found. You can see the shadow of one at 2:03. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDyQ8WYOg28[/media] It would be a nightmare to get lost in there.[/QUOTE] That video is fucking creepy, trying hard to resist the temptation to click the play button when I know its going to creep me the fuck out.

scary shit. oh also, congratulations lunchbox, you have found the pyro's voice actor.

[QUOTE=doonbugie2;33619289]They weren't dead, they were just resting from injuries. [editline]7th December 2011[/editline] That video is fucking creepy, trying hard to resist the temptation to click the play button when I know its going to creep me the fuck out.[/QUOTE] It's very difficult to make anything out, don't worry. The flashlight makes it impossible to see anything. It's like scuba diving in BF3

Wow I went ear tat place recently...

[QUOTE=bobsmit;33619441]It's very difficult to make anything out, don't worry. The flashlight makes it impossible to see anything. It's like scuba diving in BF3[/QUOTE] [img]http://snailpunch.info/teyvz.png[/img] Thats a fucking leg I just know it, there is another one there but the video cut it off.

[QUOTE=doonbugie2;33619691][img]http://snailpunch.info/teyvz.png[/img] Thats a fucking leg I just know it, there is another one there but the video cut it off.[/QUOTE] I'm pretty sure that's the diver's leg. You can see it more clearly around 4:30 when he's steadying himself to look at a panel.

[QUOTE=doonbugie2;33619691][img]http://snailpunch.info/teyvz.png[/img] Thats a fucking leg I just know it, there is another one there but the video cut it off.[/QUOTE] It's the diver's boot.

[img]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7344169/body.png[/img] There's no way that isn't a body. You can see it clearer when the video's actually running.

[QUOTE=Andokool12;33620377][img]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7344169/body.png[/img] There's no way that isn't a body. You can see it clearer when the video's actually running.[/QUOTE] It looks like a stick with a head on it. [editline]7th December 2011[/editline] [img]http://snailpunch.info/xizut.png[/img] Its a fucking hand, its a mother fucking hand! All jokes aside I can't pick out any "bodies" in the video.

Surely he would have had a dive buddy, as is standard diving practice? The article fails to mention what the hell actually happened other than "he never came up". Did the brother just leave him? Did they get separated? Why was he trapped down there? If he wasn't trapped, why didn't he ascend to the surface?

Poor guy. Dying underwater is one of the worst ways to go.

[QUOTE=Scotchair;33620747]Surely he would have had a dive buddy, as is standard diving practice? The article fails to mention what the hell actually happened other than "he never came up". Did the brother just leave him? Did they get separated? Why was he trapped down there? If he wasn't trapped, why didn't he ascend to the surface?[/QUOTE] I guess he was diving alone.

[QUOTE=doonbugie2;33619289]They weren't dead, they were just resting from injuries. [/QUOTE] Nope. Oh, and there was actually only one person sitting on the pile. In my post I said there were two. [t]http://i.imgur.com/u1RQJ.jpg[/t] [t]http://i.imgur.com/4yxOB.jpg[/t]

[QUOTE=Ninja Duck;33621139]Nope. Oh, and there was actually only one person sitting on the pile. In my post I said there were two. [t]http://i.imgur.com/4yxOB.jpg[/t][/QUOTE] Doesent he just look so happy. He is smiling, I think he is drunk or something.

[QUOTE=doonbugie2;33619289]That video is fucking creepy, trying hard to resist the temptation to click the play button when I know its going to creep me the fuck out.[/QUOTE] Here's the one where they actually explore deck 6 and report sediment with pieces coming up that look like "bits of flesh" floating around (4:22). [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACpsOTfEplg[/media]

[QUOTE=LunchboxOfDoom;33621267]Here's the one where they actually explore deck 6 and report sediment with pieces coming up that look like "bits of flesh" floating around (4:22). [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACpsOTfEplg[/media][/QUOTE] Yeah I'll pass on that one.

[QUOTE=doonbugie2;33620437]All jokes aside I can't pick out any "bodies" in the video.[/QUOTE] Right hand side of the screen at 2:03, right as he enters the bridge, is just when he reports the decomposing body. There's a black shape with the head and upper torso silhouettes visible. [IMG]http://i40.tinypic.com/b46mwy.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i42.tinypic.com/20ur287.jpg[/IMG]

[QUOTE=MangoJuice;33620805]Poor guy. Dying underwater is one of the worst ways to go.[/QUOTE] Don't you get in an euphoric state after the panic leaves? I'm fairly certain that drowning/dying in water is one of the "best way to go".

[QUOTE=WolvesSoulZ;33621317]Don't you get in an euphoric state after the panic leaves? I'm fairly certain that drowning/dying in water is one of the "best way to go".[/QUOTE] You might be thinking of freezing to death. Drowning is more of a panicked ohshitohsitohshit.

[QUOTE=wuzzimu;33621348]You might be thinking of freezing to death. Drowning is more of a panicked ohshitohsitohshit.[/QUOTE] No, I think he's right. I read somewhere that a lot of times people can't tell when someone is drowning because they DON'T act all panicked. That's something lifeguards get trained in, how to tell when someone is in trouble.