Body recovered from Lake Travis near where woman fell from barge

kxan ^ | Oct. 5, 2018 | Kate Winkle

[bgill]

Search teams found a woman's body in Lake Travis Friday morning, near the area where a woman fell from a party barge. The Travis County Sheriff's Office said a dive team found the body at a depth of 117 feet around 10:30 a.m. The body has not been officially identified as Rachel Kathleen Scott, who fell off the top deck of a party barge May 19 near Volente Beach and disappeared. After days of searching, divers and other teams could not find her. Divers with both Travis County and the Austin Police Department periodically checked the area this summer. That's what they were doing Friday when the body was found. The body will go to the medical examiner, who will determine the identity.

[bgill]

She was 25. This is the deepest they have found a body. Lake Travis is about 860 feet deep. They had video where she fell off the party barge. Thee are drownings there every summer because of all the partying and acting stupid.

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

It’s Austin’s playground, what do you expect?

[Maskot]

Where was Brett? Hmmmmmm

[Secret Agent Man]

Was Christine Ford partying again?

[rhinohunter]

The lake is NOT 860 ft deep!

You are probably reading the surface elevation of the lake.

[waterhill]

210 when full, deepest lake in Texas.

[rhinohunter]

210 is still pretty deep though...

[tomkat]

Seems odd that she didn’t float eventually.

[NativeSon]

Travis? I knew his brother Well, he was deep too...

[PAR35]

Lake Travis is about 860 feet deep.

Nope, about 210 feet.

[PAR35]

I was wondering how many lead weights she was wearing, myself. At some point one would think she’d build up enough gasses to float.

[pierrem15]

At that depth, a human body has negative buoyancy, even with some decomposition. That's how free divers keep reaching such depths. They swim down until they begin to fall.

The trick is turning around and swimming back up without passing out first.

[jettester]

Lots of big catfish down there.

[tomkat]

Thanks for that info, tho still curious re decompositional gas buildup as PAR mentioned above.

[stickandrudder]

Been down to 100’ in Travis...dark and COLD!

[ridesthemiles]

I am confused.

I was always taught that unless the lake was VERY cold, as the body decomposes, the gases in the body cause the corpse to rise to the top of the water....

How cold is that lake?

[wardaddy]

My cardiac surgeon committed suicide at Center Hill Lake on the Cumberland Plateau

In the deepest part

Shot himself and weight his body....in his kayak

People think anyhow.....a few witnesses.......saw him preparing.....several affairs with same nurse and a couple failed marriages

Sad

Had more volume of open heart procedures than anyone alive at the time

St Thomas Nashville

Body never found

Water depth around 200 foot

[fieldmarshaldj]

RIP.