# Divers searching for dead body find different dead body **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 16, 2024, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/divers-searching-for-dead-body-find-different-dead-body/1001628 "2024-05-16T11:04:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2024, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/divers-searching-for-dead-body-find-different-dead-body/1001628/1 "2024-05-16T11:04:12Z")
It sounds like an Onion headline, I know. How many corpses are floating around out there? > **[Teams searching for missing diver in Florida discover body of a different man](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/teams-searching-missing-diver-florida-discover-body-different-man-rcna152345)** > > Teams were searching for Virgil Price, who disappeared Sunday while freediving, when they discovered the lifeless body of another man believed to be around 50 years old. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2024, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/divers-searching-for-dead-body-find-different-dead-body/1001628/2 "2024-05-16T11:45:47Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > It sounds like an Onion headline, I know. How many corpses are floating around out there? Now I have this mental image of them fishing the corpse out of the water and one of them saying “Throw it back. It’s too small.” ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2024, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/divers-searching-for-dead-body-find-different-dead-body/1001628/3 "2024-05-16T11:52:49Z")
A number of missing persons cases have been solved by just searching nearby waterways. > **[YouTube scuba divers say they may have found the body of a man missing for...](https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/viral/adventures-with-purpose-youtube-divers-find-body-of-missing-man-rcna20904)** > > The volunteer diving group Adventures With Purpose is known for cracking missing persons cold cases. It may have found the body of a man missing since 2003. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2024, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/divers-searching-for-dead-body-find-different-dead-body/1001628/4 "2024-05-16T12:14:59Z")
He will be taken to his burial in a hearse of a different color. ---
**Author:** ![Ellecram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellecram/32/18948_2.png) [@Ellecram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellecram)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2024, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/divers-searching-for-dead-body-find-different-dead-body/1001628/5 "2024-05-16T14:22:02Z")
Years ago my elderly father and his fishing buddy were out on a large local lake spending a quiet afternoon. They were heading to a particular area near the shore when they saw a body floating towards the edge. They didn’t have cell phones even if they were available at the time. I can’t remember how it all turned out but I seem to remember my father stating that they just scooted on out of there. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2024, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/divers-searching-for-dead-body-find-different-dead-body/1001628/6 "2024-05-16T14:31:31Z")
Isn’t there a “fact” from several decades ago that something like 80% of dead men pulled out of the water have their zipper down? ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2024, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/divers-searching-for-dead-body-find-different-dead-body/1001628/7 "2024-05-16T15:24:08Z")
When Catfish Noodling Goes Wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2024, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/divers-searching-for-dead-body-find-different-dead-body/1001628/8 "2024-05-16T16:01:37Z")
I can say I’ve been there & done that. Well, it was the other dive team on the call but we found someone we weren’t looking for & never did find the person we were called out for. The person who was found was part of a group that was intentionally jumping off a bridge into a canal for some summer fun. The group split in two & each thought the victim was with the other group & no one realized this person wasn’t accounted for. I also know of a dive team that intentionally sank a car into the river for training purposes; they couldn’t find their prop car but did find a few others that they didn’t know were down there. When one drives a car off a boat ramp, it may float for a bit & get carried downstream a bit before it fills with water & finds it’s resting place on the bottom. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2024, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/divers-searching-for-dead-body-find-different-dead-body/1001628/9 "2024-05-17T18:02:18Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > How many corpses are floating around out there? You don’t wanna know. > [@silenus](#): > > When Catfish Noodling Goes Wrong. Watch it, Buster! ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2024, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/divers-searching-for-dead-body-find-different-dead-body/1001628/10 "2024-05-18T03:18:27Z")
Adventures With Purpose often finds multiple submerged cars that aren’t the car they’re looking for. Only occasionally is there a body in them. I think their high score was over 50 found in one stretch of a Pittsburgh river. I forget which river.