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recovered have been in the water from one to fourteen days, but cn occasions bodies have not been sighted for three weeks. He pointed out that in some of these occasions the bodies may well vii” surfaced for some time before they were sighted. recalled that on the last escape attempt from Alcatraz the body was not recovered until approximately the thirteenth 1 aa ~ = FLOATING OF DROWNED BODIES IN . SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA ae ee er ee Sr eee a ee ee eee oy GA Ee... me Proliow investigation was made by 5A SY Pon mAT SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA | , : On June 15, 1962 as Coroner, City and County of San Francisco, advised that there are so many variables which effect the ultimate flotat’.on and travel of a drowned body as to preclude an acctiwate prediction of what wii occur. It has been his expertence that the bulk of the bodies ane He stated that there are two principal factors which le generally govern the rapidity with which bodies return to the surface. The first factor 1s that of the water temperature (coldness tends to retard the formation of body gases and thus inhibits its buoyancy). The second factor is that the formation of the body gases themselves are dependent upon the food intake of the victim and of the bacterial content of that food intake. CEP 120 stated that in some instances marine life, such as crabs, occasionally attack the body and puncture the body cavity, thus greatly increasing the time required for the body flotation to occur. i 21:0 recalled instances wherein Golden Gate we suicide leapers have hit the water in such a position and with such force that the body cavity was ruptured. In those instancés the body has been carried out to sea without ever returning to the surface. ; . wea ane a So “A ee AT OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA on June 15, 1962, AT toneda county we Deputy Coroner, Oakland, adVieea that he had found it impossible - 15 - 4943