re: AstraMike #3183 - sink or float
There is one view that at the time a body enters the water it either sinks or floats subject to such factors as the amount of fat content, and clothing which will trap air. Cold water tends to inhibit resurfacing, and if sufficient deep is reached no amount of decomposition gas will overcome external water pressure (Schafer 1978)
Advances in forensic taphonomy By Haglund, and. Sorg
- BJ