BODY OF FOURTH BOATER FOUND IN CASTAIC LAKE.Byline: Amy Raisin raisin, in botany and cooking raisin, dried fruit of certain varieties of grapevines bearing grapes with a high content of sugar and solid flesh. Although the fruit is sometimes artificially dehydrated, it is usually sun-dried. Staff Writer CASTAIC - Ending days of risky underwater searching, divers recovered the last of four bodies from Castaic Lake Castaic Lake is a lake on Castaic Creek formed by Castaic Dam, in northwestern Los Angeles County, California, near the town of Castaic. The 323,700 acre foot lake (399,000,000 m³) is the terminus of the West Branch of the California Aqueduct, though some comes from the 154 mi² on Saturday, more than a week after a high-speed boating crash killed four men. Aided by sophisticated sonar equipment, a team of specially trained volunteer divers retrieved the last victim, 30-year-old Nelson Roy Brinkman of Phelan, from the lake's bottom at about 2:45 p.m. Saturday, authorities said. While rescuers recovered the body of Ken Lane, 41, shortly after the Jan. 11 accident, family and friends of the other three men kept vigil at the lake for a week while searchers made repeated attempts to locate the wreckage and the bodies in waters as deep as 250 feet. The bodies of Steve Coulombe, 38, of Agua Dulce Agua Dulce is Spanish for "sweet water". It also refers to various locations: In Mexico:
Coulombe, owner of boat design and manufacturing company High Torque Marine, was testing the twin-hulled prototype with HTM HTM HyperText Markup (file extension) HTM Hand To Mouth HTM harmful-to-minors HTM Held-to-Maturity HTM High Tide Mark HTM Hazlo tú mismo (Spanish: do it yourself) HTM Hierarchical Temporal Memory employees Lane and Brinkman, and friend Wiseman when the vessel, reportedly traveling 80 mph, flipped and sank just before 2 p.m. on Jan. 11. Hampered by the extreme depths, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department This article is about the Los Angeles County Sherriff's Department, not to be confused with the smaller Los Angeles County Police The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department (LASD) is a local law enforcement agency that serves Los Angeles County, California. divers were joined by a specialized diving team and a Vancouver-based company, Kongsberg Simrad, that volunteered the use of its scanning system. Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County will pay for the traveling expenses and food and lodging for the sonar technicians, authorities said. ``This was a difficult process, and it was definitely a collaborative effort between a number of groups,'' said Sheriff's Deputy Richard Pena. In addition to the volunteer divers - from Florida-based Underwater Global Explorers - and Kongsberg Simrad, Pena credited the San Bernardino San Bernardino, city, United States San Bernardino (săn bûr'nədē`nō), city (1990 pop. 164,164), seat of San Bernardino co., S Calif., at the foot of the San Bernardino Mts.; inc. 1854. County Sheriff's Department for lending its remote-controlled vehicle that was used to confirm the sonar images before the divers descended. Pena said it is unclear whether attempts will be made to salvage the experimental boat, which was found stuck in the silty lake bottom at an angle in about 240 feet of water. ``It is unclear if there will be a private salvage effort, perhaps for insurance purposes,'' Pena said. ``Our main concern was to recover the victims' bodies for their families.'' The boating accident was the deadliest in the lake's history. |
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