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Smacks of 'I never said we'd check the reeds, only the river..........................who was checking the reeds ??' 'What, the reeds that are growing in the river you were checking ?' Sounds like the recriminations and counter-claims on this have a way to go. Just horrific for the family as no...

Could have been a simple accidental slip - wouldn't take long to be deadly this time of year. Shock of the cold water (possibly causing a heart attack), almost immediate loss of strength due to the cold so unable to pull herself out.....happened to a fishing pal years ago on the Adur near...

Not that far. The body has appeared a mile or more downstream of the weir.

When did he say that ? Feb is just about the lowest point in the year for river vegetation.

The most sophisticated are not far off what you see in a dashcam…….very clear outlines of the sea/riverbed. It would be pretty obvious.

He said a diver could miss it, which whilst technically correct is highly unlikely, as they basically do fine-tooth, planned and segmented area searches the same as forensics do on land. The sonar isn’t impacted by visibility or temperature. I really don’t think the body was in the stretch of...

He absolutely would. We recovered an electronic fishfinding device from a tree on one of our lakes (in Bedelands) recently….it’s 3ft deep and about an acre. If you need a £500 device to find fish in that place you need to find a different hobby :lolol:

Pretty sure personally her body wasn’t in any part of the river they surveyed at the time they surveyed it. Sonar devices are incredibly accurate now and it would have been obvious, particularly in a shallow river. The devices on the charter boats I fish on (less sophisticated than those used by...

Won’t be much decomposition in February with water temps 6-7 degrees.

Indeed. Our rivers are amazing things…….I fish a lot, not sure if people generally understand what they can be like below the surface. Depths vary massively often within a very short distance, there are underwater obstructions all over the place, the banks you stand on may be undercut by several...

From what I’ve understood they weren’t deployed/asked by the police to search a very long stretch……..may be that she was already beyond their search area.

Can’t be sure of that until the full facts are known (if they ever will be). Body being visible now doesn’t mean it was days ago when the search was being conducted, and may not have been in the river at the time. SGI provided their services free of charge btw.

Damned if they do, damned if they don’t. Impossible situation for them

Did occur to me that if she does reappear, she’s possibly got a strong case for suing the police for disclosure of personal information.

Not sure about that - it’s still a major news story and there will be developments worthy of discussion which will only result in a new thread anyway.

Agreed……..ideally wouldn’t have been necessary, and must be adding even more upset for the family but just one of a whole load of things being considered as part of the investigation that the keyboard warriors won’t know about. Desperately sad.

Indeed. The tides vary very significantly with moon phases anyway so timing could be a factor - the Arun has a max range of nearly 6m on a big spring tide, but little more than 1m on the smallest neap tide. It’s a huge difference.

Not convinced by this theory personally. Unless the weir becomes ‘not a weir’ when the tide is high it’s difficult to see a body going over it…….and the distance involved is enormous - unless there has been very major flooding - for a body to travel that far without getting snagged somehow on...

SGI have only categorically said she’s not in ‘that section of the river’…..police are still working further downstream towards/in the estuary. Don‘t know that particular river but difficult to see how that would happen without significant flooding.

Pretty disgusting really……guy I know (ex police diver) does some work for them. It’s horrendous - very definition of ‘a dirty job but someone has to do it’.