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Sacramento man identified as Lake Tahoe diving victim
Submitted by paula on Thu, 09/08/2016 - 9:07pm
The man who died Monday as he was doing underwater exploring around the SS Tahoe in Glenbrook Bay has been identified.
Michael Stephen Majewski, 63, of Sacramento was diving with two friends in about 360’ of water. All three are experienced divers and had completed a similar dive at the same wreckage the day before but for unknown reasons, Majewski made an emergency ascent to the surface. When he reached the surface he was unconscious and not responsive.
Man dies while scuba diving in Glenbrook Bay as he explored SS Tahoe
Submitted by paula on Tue, 09/06/2016 - 10:18am
A 63-year-old man diving in Lake Tahoe near Glenbrook Bay died on Monday, September 5.
Marine Patrols from Douglas County Sheriff, Washoe County Sheriff and El Dorado County Sheriff, along with Tahoe Douglas Fire all responded to the distress call of a scuba diver in trouble just after 10:00 a.m.
Drone goes underwater to explore the sunken SS Tahoe
Submitted by paula on Sun, 06/26/2016 - 10:25pmA vast, largely unexplored world is being opened by hobbyists piloting robotic submarines capable of traveling hundreds of feet below the surface of lakes, rivers and oceans.
Styling themselves as citizen scientists, two young engineers, Eric Stackpole and David Lang, have created OpenROV, a small start-up based in Berkeley, Calif., that builds submarine drone kits. They hope to create a mirror image of the airborne drone craze.
Project Baseline: Lake Tahoe - Why New Millennium Divers became Citizen Scientists
Submitted by Anonymous on Sun, 04/05/2015 - 3:09pm
Let us start with a common interactive scenario for Lake Tahoe:
40 years ago a family came to Lake Tahoe, walked to the water’s edge of a very full lake (on that day in 1975, Tahoe’s surface elevation was at 6228 feet), and said, “What a beautiful lake! Look how clear it is!” and they spent the rest of their vacation not knowing the environmental direction that Tahoe was heading.
