I've been a search and rescue diver for 15 years. You have no idea how horrific the world really is.

I’ve been a search and rescue diver for 15 years. 8 years as a volunteer, and 7 years as a full time diver for the local police department. I’ve lost count of how many recoveries I’ve made. <br> <br>You think you know how the world works. You think you know what it means to be human. And you think you know what lies on the other side of the waves. But you’re wrong. You have no idea. <br> <br>I’ve recovered body parts from the water that were too damaged to have been caused by drowning or drowning alone. I’ve found dead women and children strapped to anchors at the bottom of a river with no report of them ever going missing. <br> <br>I’ve seen a dead guy’s head float to the surface after pulling him up with hooks because the fish had eaten away his neck. <br> <br>I’ve seen a dead child floating on the surface of the water with no trauma or bruising on her body, yet there was loose blood floating around inside of her. I think the cause of death was hypothermia or a drug overdoes. The parents didn’t report either of their daughters missing after they took them fishing. A passerby found the other daughter on the shore. She was deceased as well. <br> <br>I recovered a dead and strapped disfigured dog from the water because the police department didn’t know what it was. <br> <br>I recovered a dead and disfigured child from an old waterwheel (some people mess around in dead water wheels even if you think they’re abandoned). <br> <br>I’ve recovered a man who went through a woodchipper. I had to recover him in multiple parts over multiple days because his remains would get sucked into the mud at the bottom of the water. <br> <br>I’ve recovered a woman who had a basket on top of her head filled with rocks. No suicide note and no reports of her going missing. <br> <br>I’ve recovered an old dead man from a sunken row boat. The working theory is that he fell asleep in the boat and people cut a hole in the bottom of it and pushed it into the water. <br> <br>But the most disturbing thing that happened to me happened 3 years ago. <br> <br>I got a call from local police telling me a 2 year old had fallen into the water at the dock while he was with his family fishing. <br> <br>I rolled up in my truck and saw a family in tears. <br> <br>I suited up and jumped into the water. <br> <br>The water was murky, but I adjusted my dive light and started to feel around with my hand. <br> <br>I usually stay below the water for around 4-5 minutes depending on the weather conditions and depth of the water, but this one was just 5-7 ft deep, so I could stay longer. <br> <br>I usually find what I’m looking for within 30 minutes to an hour. But sometimes it can take days depending on the water conditions. <br> <br>Well, after about 2 hours of searching, I finally found the little guy. <br> <br>He was face down in the mud about 20ft from the dock. <br> <br>It’s my job to put a hook through the body, and drag it back over to the boat so that my team can pick me and the body up. <br> <br>I put the hook through his little belly and drug him back over to the boat, but he was heavier than I thought for a little guy. I struggled to move his body. <br> <br>I was so exhausted from trying to move him that I had to signal the boat to come over to me. <br> <br>I thought it was strange that he came over to me, but didn’t register it in my head at the time. <br> <br>So, I put the hook through his belly and gave it to my team to pull him into the boat. <br> <br>I got back into the boat and pulled the hook out of his belly and started to give the family my condolences. <br> <br>But the family weren’t upset. <br> <br>They weren’t even looking at me. They were all looking at a nearby park with smirks on their faces. <br> <br>I thought it was weird, but figured they were still in shock. <br> <br>I told them we’d be towing the body to the hospital for an autopsy and they said that was fine. <br> <br>The whole thing seemed really strange. Even the police didn’t seem upset about a missing 2 year old. <br> <br><br>I decided to go to the hospital to see how the autopsy went. <br> <br>The coroner was off by 50 lbs when she weighed the little guy. She said he weighed 60 lbs, but I know for a fact that he had to be over 100. <br> <br><br>Well, the coroner cracked the boy’s head open and found it full of rocks. <br> <br>She continued with the autopsy and found his little stomach and intestines to be full of rocks as well. <br> <br>I watched as she made an incision around his belly button and pulled it back like a tent to reveal a whole fistful of rocks stuffed inside of him. <br> <br><br>It’s been 3 years since that day. And nothing has come of it. There was no missing persons report filed, nor any charges. <br> <br><br>I’m thinking that maybe these people were selling drugs and wanted to dump weighted backpacks in the water, but they messed up their weight calculation and the bags sunk to the bottom and they lost it. <br> <br>This is all the evidence that they had. Then these people got the bright idea to tell the police that a 2 year old had fallen into the water to get these bags recovered. <br> <br>I don’t know what happened. I don’t know if it was drugs or not. <br> <br>But what I do know is that I recovered a 100 pound bag of rocks from the water that no one gave an explanation for. <br> <br>And no one cared.