Body Of Scuba Diver Found After Woman Went Missing: Seattle FD

Seattle WA

02 August, 2021

12:35 PM

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SEATTLE, WA — The King County medical examiner will determine if a scuba diver that was discovered 35 feet below the surface of the water on Sunday was the same diver that was reported missing Saturday night, the Seattle Fire Department announced. Private divers located the scuba diver on Sunday at Seacrest Cove in the 1600 block of Harbor Avenue, officials said Sunday on social media. The female diver went missing in the same area Saturday night and fire department officials said that the investigation had been handed over to the Seattle Police Department. The Seattle Fire Department said that the woman, 33, was diving with other members of a diving class around 10 p.m. when she did not resurface. The woman was with six other student divers and two instructors at the time of the incident, which took place at Seacrest Cove 2, officials said. The dive instructor called 911 and Seattle Fire Department rescue divers along with members of the Seattle Police Department and U.S. Coast Guard assisted with the search, a fire department spokeswoman said. The search was conducted near the Honeybear ship wreckage and lasted until midnight, the spokeswoman said. A woman's body was found around 10 a.m. on Sunday, but the spokeswoman said authorities were not able to confirm whether it was the same diver. The fire department spokeswoman said that the incident is the first scuba diver rescue-related response the Seattle Fire Department has handled this year and the first in recent memory. The water rescue was the third such incident since Friday after a 52-year-old woman's body was found in the water in Gig Harbor after she went underwater while swimming Saturday afternoon, KOMO News reported. The woman was swimming with her grandchildren on Carney Lake when she went underwater. The report stated that Pierce County Sheriff's officials attempted to rescue her but were not successful after a boater discovered the woman's body around 4 p.m., the sheriff's department said on social media. The woman had been missing for two hours when police said that the rescue attempt shifted to a rescue mission. Also on Friday, Mercer Island Police Marine Patrol was called to Lake Washington where a 61-year-old Nevada man jumped into the water from a boat without a life jacket, authorities said. The boat was moving at the time and when the man's nephew called for him, his uncle would not get back on the boat and after a few minutes of trying to get the man on the boat, the nephew told police that his uncle did not resurface. The man was in 170 feet of water at the time, which made rescue efforts impossible, authorities said. Efforts to remover the man's body remain ongoing and will require electronic sonar devices and remote operated vehicles to locate and recover the body, Mercer Island Police said over the weekend.