TOPOCK—The search will resume Tuesday for three victims who went missing in the Colorado River near Topock late Saturday following a collision.
One victim, Christine Lewis, 51, of Visalia, California was found early Monday morning by dive teams.
Three more victims, Kirra Drury, Raegan Heitzig and Brian Grabowski are still missing.
Authorities will continue searching for them on Tuesday with the aid of kayakers, divers, members of the search and rescue and teams on the ground and in the air.
Family members of the missing took to social media sites posting flyers asking for the public’s help in trying to locate their missing loved one.
Cody Lankton told The Bee on Sunday his fiancé’s uncle and niece are among the missing.
Lankton did not give their names at that time.
Late Monday, a diver with the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Office reportedly suffered an illness that required immediate extraction from the scene by helicopter to a hyperbaric chamber at Arrowhead Regional Hospital in San Bernardino, California
A source close to the incident told The Bee the diver reportedly got caught up in a rip tide and while attempting to resurface, suffered an illness. It was not confirmed if the diver had experienced the BENS on his resurfacing.
Stay with The Bee for this developing story
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Thank u 4 the update
Hyperbaric chamber needed from the Colorado River, how much experience did that diver have and where from?
Clearly you have no idea just how much dive recoveries mean to these men. They exhaust themselves day and night to bring peace to the family. This diver had 15 years of experience going on 2 full days of diving with little rest. You speak of things you do not know. Have a heart, before you speak.
Do you mean the bonds? Not sure what bens are
https://www.emedicinehealth.com/decompression_syndromes_the_bends/article_em.htm#
The bends is another name for decompression sickness
Its a diving term.
Should be BENDS a decompression sickness from
diving.
Bends otherwise known as Nitrogen narcosis. Too much Nitrogen in the blood bubbles stream. Stops the blood flow.
Decompression sickness (DCS; also known as divers’ disease, the bends, aerobullosis, or caisson disease) describes a condition arising from dissolved gases coming out of solution into bubbles inside the body on depressurisation.
Decompression sickness – Wikipedia
The Bends.
Our thoughts and prayers are with the family’s of the missing. May they be found soon.
Breaks my heart to read about this. My condolences to family and friends.
Prayers to the family of victims.
May the Grace of God be with all of the families & friends?
It’s called the bends and is caused by surfacing from deep water to quickly and not allowing the nitrogen to escape from the blood.
Anyone who has not experienced the tragic death of someone close has no idea of the heart rending , gut-wrenching agony that their relatives and close friends experience.
We can only pray for them,
“And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your
hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 4:7
May God give them the Peace that passes all understanding in this time of their great need.