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The body of a scuba diver recovered from Lake Tahoe has been identified as a man who disappeared 17 years ago. Full story.

Doesn't Lake Tahoe supply drinking water to the locals? Yuk!

Doesn't Lake Tahoe supply drinking water to the locals? Yuk!

Pretty sure that not the first or last large mammal to end up at the bottom of Tahoe.

I did a dive in that exact spot a few years ago. Not a place for novices (not that I have anything to indicate this guy was a novice, unless he didn't drop his weights).

It's a great view, a looming wall in front of you and below you there is nothing but abyss. If you loose your buoyancy there you are in a lot of trouble. I'm surprised he only went to 265 feet, and that he was found. Not really any reason to go below 100 feet there, I wonder how deep the guy was that found him?

Fletch wrote:

mrchad9 wrote: I wonder how deep the guy was that found him?

Didn't they find him with a submarine or something?

eh?

This is all the article says...

Windecker's body was discovered in 265 feet of water by a recreational diver in late July off Rubicon Point along Lake Tahoe's west shore.

I didn't think you could dive to 265 feet. At least not recreationaly??

I've been to 250' at Rubicon Point; there is a series of ledges on the wall down there that a sinking diver could easily land on. Note that 265' is not that deep if you have technical training and proper gasses to breathe. I know some guys who are part of a group that explored the SS Tahoe wreck which lies in the lake between 375' and 475'. While that's a seriously deep dive, especially at high altitude and in cold water, the fact that it's in a lake makes the dive logistics and support significantly easier than it would be in the open ocean.