...about the guy that had gone diving 20 or 30 years ago, and was never heard from again? The story is that his body (skeleton) was found on the bottom of the lake when waters were low some time in the early 90s.

That story is made up! The level of any body of water has never been lower than they are right now due to Global Warming!

I can't tell if he's serious. After all, they are calling it climate change NOW...

DrQuincy '96

Mr. Global Warming is a sock of the Politics Board sock Global Warming. Double-sock fail.

Anyway,

Back in 1995, when I was doing my check-out dives at Lake Travis (Hippy Hollow or where ever the hell that was), the lake was about 30 feet low. Some of the other divers were telling me that the river authority (or lake travis authority) recovered a skeleton of a diver that had been on the bottom of lake travis since the 70s. When they went to pull the remains up, the head popped off and is still sitting on the bottom of the lake.

Has anyone else heard that story?

No I am just a single sock. I think I may have even been made up before the other Global Warming sock was. And no I am not kidding. If you don't respect Global Warming you WILL BE facing 197 degree summers by the year 2011! That is a fact!

diving in lakes.

I did find this:

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As I handled the still damp cranium, my attention was drawn to the palate. More than anything else, the shape of that palate struck me. It stood out, to my eyes, in a very unusual way. Looking at it, I was racked by doubts. I felt very insecure because obviously McKern was going to judge me on my response. More than that. I was insecure because I was about to give him an answer I felt was intrinsically improbable. At last I summoned up my courage and spoke:

"I think it's Mongoloid, probably Japanese," I said. McKern looked at me for a long moment. Then at last he said: "That's what I think too."

Whatever pride I felt was immediately dampened by McKern, who went on to point out all the other things I had missed. With the sure touch of a true master of forensic anthropology, he demonstrated one detail after another, details which I had seen but had not observed. At such times McKern was truly dazzling and I shall never forget those lucid,
decisive moments in which he practically made that old skull speak.

I had not observed that some of the teeth had been glued into their sockets. I had not observed the scorching on the outer cranial vault. I had not observed the very simple fact that the skull had been attached to a fishing line tightly tied to its zygomatic arch, which meant that it was dry, unfleshed bone to start with, when it was plunged into the lake.

After McKern had pointed out all these things, the answer became clear. The skull before us was almost certainly a World War II trophy skull that some serviceman brought back from the Pacific Theater. The scorching had occurred during battle, perhaps by the action of flamethrowers or as the result of a fiery plane crash. The teeth had fallen out as the skull dried out and had been glued back in. Finally, either the serviceman himself had sickened of his gruesome relic, or he had died and his heirs wanted to get rid of the thing. But how to dispose of it? If they put it in the garbage it might be found. Burning it was too much trouble. Burying it would be bothersome and might leave traces. Best to throw it in the lake! Tie a rock to it for good measure! And so the skull went overboard, bubbling down into the depths of Lake Travis, only to be found again by the purest chance.

I am certain that, somewhere in Japan today, there is a family wondering what became of an uncle, a father, a long-lost relative who marched off to war more than half a century ago. They will never know. And the Japanese man whose skull this was, how could he have dreamed that, after great and fiery battles in the middle of the vast Pacific, the bony vessel enclosing his dreaming brain was destined to end up tied to a rock and drowned in a cool American lake, then fished up onto a bright laboratory table at the University of Texas?

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Dead Men Do Tell Tales

Maybe I'm imagining things.

diving in muff.

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diving in lakes.

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Couldn't agree more.

It does take more skill to dive in a lake, but....why do it?

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diving in muff.

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Couldn't agree more.

It does take more skill to dive in a muff, but....why do it? CUZ I JUST GOT TO MISTER!!!!

This looks similar, but the time frame of the story does not match up.

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Missing scuba diver case finally solved after 25 years
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by LUTHER MONROE - CDNN Safety News Editor

COLLINS LANDING, NY (28 Jan 2006) -- Skeletal remains found in the St. Lawrence River have been positively identified as those of Brett Schirmer, a scuba diver who went missing in 1981.

Divers exploring the wreck of the Sir Robert Peel found the remains last Sunday at a depth of 42.7 meters (140 feet) off Collins Landing near the Thousand Islands Bridge.

Schimer was only 21 when he disappeared while diving in the same area some 25 years ago.

According to Serge Saakov and Heinz Wahl who were among the group of four divers who found Schimer's remains, they had started their ascent went they noticed something unusual protruding from the river bottom.





After scraping off mussels, they realized it was a yellow dive tank but when they attempted to pull it out of the mud, they found the skeletal remains of a diver entangled in line.

Police were called to the scene to recover the remains and subsequent DNA tests confirmed it was Schimer.
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25-Year Mistery Solved

7 years of higher education, and i can't figure out wtf this thread's purpose is

Another case of 7 years of higher education undone by 23 years of practicing law.

It was all for you. All for you.

Jorts: "...zero point zero..."

I found it.

Body found in Lake Travis might be diver lost in '79

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Skeleton found in Lake Travis identified as diver
Author: CLAIRE OSBORN
Date: August 15, 1996 Publication: Austin American-Statesman (TX) Page Number: B6 ${ Word Count: 431


Something went wrong when Mark Galen Jordan went diving 17 years ago north of Windy Point on Lake Travis.

Jordan was found face down on the bottom of the lake by his diving partner, his brother-in-law, James Skidmore, who tried but couldn't bring Jordan to the surface. Searches for the body later that night -- Aug. 31, 1979 -- and the next day were unsuccessful.

Wednesday, the Travis County Sheriff's Department confirmed that skeletal remains found July 28, in 140...


Body found in Lake Travis might be diver lost in '79
Author: KELLI WALKER
Date: July 30, 1996 Publication: Austin American-Statesman (TX) Page Number: B2 ${ Word Count: 302


A body recovered from Lake Travis on Monday could be that of a diver who drowned at Windy Point 17 years ago, authorities said.

Two divers stumbled across the skeleton on Sunday 140 feet below the water's surface. It was inside a wetsuit with oxygen tanks attached.

The body was turned over to the Travis County Medical Examiner's Office to be identified.

``We know in 1979 a person did go down in this exact area,'' said Travis County...

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I thought the water tasted a little funny.

Yes. This was a lifelong childhood friend of mine. His name was Mark Jordan. My other friend and Mark's brother in law, James Skidmore was Mark's diving partner they day he drowned. Mark and I attended Naval Training Academy together in 1972 and we deployed with the Navy 6th fleet West Pac to Tonkin Gulf. We both learned to scuba dive at Possum Kingdom Lake while in high school. Mark was an awesome friend....RIP .

Holy balls. The only thing scarier than finding a skeleton at the bottom of a lake is a rookie user coming out of nowhere and sending a 10 year old thread to the top on his first post.

Sorry you lost your very good friend, and I regret his fate. I don't intend to demean that. Just not sure I've ever seen anything like this thread.

Or maybe this is a sock? Again, I understand the seriousness of your post but I had to add something for levity...and to make sure I wasn't living in an alternate reality.

If true--- mind blown.

please ?

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If true--- mind blown.

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FWIW, you've been that way a long time

This might be the oddest bump I've ever seen on texags.

This thread floated to the top unexpectedly.

Big, if true.

And just like that, he's gone.

Can ghosts post on texags?

What is going on here

Well, don't just sit there. At least give the guy a blue star

Was out at Lake Travis today and thought about Mark Jordan. Decided to look up the old incident now that there's internet and found this thread. I was one of the two divers that found him. All that was visible in the beams of our lights was a loop of regulator hose sticking out of the silt. My buddy started hand fanning while I held the light and we soon found BCD material. Having seen Mark's memorial stone many times at Windy Point, we were fairly certain what we had found, so we tied the line from a dive reel to the hose and swam up the slope until there was ambient light and tied it off to a pecan tree at 90 feet or so. The next day I took a Travis County diver down to the site and he marked it with a Pelican bouy. Apparently the County later tied a lift bag to the cylinder valve and inflated it until it pulled the gear free of the silt, but of course the skeleton fell apart. They then had the serial numbers from the equipment, but no dental records, so no positive ID was possible. We waited a few months, checking the spot every so often, and nothing was ever changing, so we decided to excavate and recover the skull, which we provided to the coroner. Interesting story, anyway; if anybody ever sees this, they'll get another piece.

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No I am just a single sock. I think I may have even been made up before the other Global Warming sock was. And no I am not kidding. If you don't respect Global Warming you WILL BE facing 197 degree summers by the year 2011! That is a fact!

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Considering the weather we had in 2011, this is kinda creepy.