Scuba Diver Found Dead in Hudson River

Cyber Diver News Network ^ | February 24, 2004 | Michael Randall

[aculeus]

Newburgh, NY: Here's a mystery that would challenge even Sherlock Holmes.

A man's body is found floating in the Hudson River. He's wearing scuba gear and a face mask.

[BIGLOOK]

You mean "Stealth Sturgeons".

They're big, they're bad and they're back!

[Sacajaweau]

How about a suicide mission?? Alqueda leads the way in “no witness” missions.

[SamAdams76]

That’s a bummer. He was probably searching for bodies from the plane crash but it turns out everybody on the plane survived. There ought to be a better method for getting immediate headcount of airplane crash survivors so that we don’t have to risk the lives of others searching for bodies that don’t exist.

[Allegra]

You're right... very odd. All my possible non-tinfoil-hat theories go out the window when you consider nobody reported him drowned or missing.

Especially since it's been almost five years.

[mollynme]

Check the date of the article. I wonder if they ever figured this out?

[Tijeras_Slim]

He was probably searching for bodies from the plane crash but it turns out everybody on the plane survived.

Musta had a heck of an airtank to stay in the water nearly 5 years waiting for the plane to showup.

[Ramius]

Ah... I hadn’t noticed the date.

I was gonna ask if he got hit by an airplane.

Not one of the more common ways to die while scuba diving, I suppose.

[Allegra]

For what it's worth the Feds are investigating

I guess they haven't found anything yet? It happened almost five years ago.

[Tijeras_Slim]

NEWBURGH, N.Y. (26 Apr 2004) — The body of a man found floating in the Hudson River wearing scuba gear two months ago has been identified, authorities said.

Newburgh town police said Friday that Juan Carlos Galo-Argueta, 22, was an illegal alien from Honduras who had been living in Houston.

His body, clad in full scuba gear, was discovered Feb. 22 by the crew of a cargo ship that had delivered coal to Dynergy’s Danskammer power plant.

He will be buried next week by the Orange County Coroners Office.

Authorities declined to say what Galo-Argueta was doing in the Newburgh area, 80 miles south of Albany, due to an ongoing customs and immigration investigation, but said he had no connection to the cargo ship.

[aculeus]

Another back from the dead thread!

[BIGLOOK]

I guess we're all experiencing Obama fatigue.

I just might post a massacre story that happened about that time in Fishkill, NY. A drug deal gone bad crime with Latinos involved. Multiple murders, arson......something right out of an old Clint Eastwood movie. Newburgh is about 5-6 miles away.