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What does a body look like after being underwater for four months?
I'm writing about about a girl who falls into a lake in the middle of winter and drowns. the lake is covered in ice so she can't resurface and is far from where she fell in the water. her body sticks to the bottom due to bring partially buried. when her body is discovered I would like to know what it would look like. please keep in mind that this was taking place in the middle of winter and she wasn't found until spring when all the ice melted.I appreciate any answer but please give me serious replies. thank you!
I did do research, but what all came up was what generally happened after a few hours (the body produces gases and such) but I couldn't find anything about what had happened after a few months. I know I could've done a little more, but after getting a bunch of "the body produces gases, the body rots, etc." I just gave up and came on here.
And haha to the "Wet" comment :)
4 Answers
- JodyLv 78 years agoFavorite Answer
Lakes are filled with hungry fish, turtles, crawdads (crabs) and snakes in winter; bears, wild dogs, wolves can smell in water, and swim; no flesh or bones would remain after several months, if larger mammals went after her, but they won't eat her hair, it could remain with the cranium bone and they could identify her from the DNA.
A frozen surface does not stop activity underneath it; lakes that big have undertows that keep the water moving continually.
- 8 years ago
It would be mostly bones with a few chunks of skin and hair attached. Her clothes would be gone too.
- ?Lv 78 years ago
Seriously? You want to be a writer and you can't research your own material? That's why there are libraries and encyclopedias. Even million seller authors research their own work.
