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Theoretically? Is this like "I have this friend......" ?
I think it might depend on the temperature of the water. I've heard that bodies in Lake Tahoe stay suspended beneath the surface for months because the water is so cold that they don't surface from bloating.
I think I'll put off having lunch for a while.
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Once you get about 30 feet below the surface of the Great Lakes, you hit a thermocline where water gets (and stays) much colder. Bodies do not decompose quickly at the lower temps. There are shipwrecks from the last century that still contain recognizable remains.
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Ombligo wrote:
Once you get about 30 feet below the surface of the Great Lakes, you hit a thermocline where water gets (and stays) much colder. Bodies do not decompose quickly at the lower temps. There are shipwrecks from the last century that still contain recognizable remains.
Yep, depending on the depth, if a body is kept cold enough to stop decomposition then it may not appear for years or decades.
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"Depends on how well you weighted the body..." :ROTFL:
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Black wrote:
How would a leaner body with a very high alcohol content affect things...?
It would be smiling
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Black wrote:
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several inches of body fat would likely float and get wind driven to a beach
a leaner body would sink for several days and then the gasses from decomposition would refloat it unless the carcass vented and didn't float. Then the perch and trout might nibble at it.
How would a leaner body with a very high alcohol content affect things...?
A "very high alcohol content" from imbibing alcoholic beverages would only be like 0.1 to 0.3 % blood alcohol level, which would not affect buoyancy nor most bacteria involved in decomposition. I don't know if it would affect perch or trout nibbling.
