[rickylc]

Now I'm wondering if the divers, as you suggested, quickly removed the gear to surface quickly... and if we could send our own divers to search for the equipment.

You might, on a great stroke of luck, find tanks, if you knew exactly where they dropped them and the current wasn't strong enough to move them. I doubt it though. A weight belt would be next to impossible to find. >

I'm really a rank amateur in comparison to most I know that dive. I have around 100 dives in shallow water (< 60 ft depth). But one of the basics you learn in any diving class is how to get to the surface, FAST!!! ;)

[jerseygirl]

"how to get to the surface, FAST!!! "

So, just hypothetically, the 2 deceased divers abandoned their gear to quickly surface. The water was not deep enough to worry about decompression. Yet they both died under "suspicious circumstance."

Do you know if there are water intake valves in the Hudson near the Indian Point reactor? Or are their other intake valves to important sources of water?