"Commercial diver Michael Salter was in the middle of a routine geoduck harvest Wednesday afternoon near Bainbridge Island, about halfway between Brownsville Marina and the Agate Pass Bridge. Crawling along the Manzanita harvest tract roughly 60 feet below the surface, he blasted the seabed with a water gun... “There's this huge cloud of silt behind me, and this skull rolls out of it…""
Kitsap County Coroner’s office's has determined that the skull is human. Jeff Wallis, the coroner, added, "I'm not very optimistic on [DNA extraction] just because of how long it's been in the water." It’s likely been underwater for "at least a couple of years"."
Human skull found by geoduck diver near Bainbridge Island
Kitsap County Coroner’s office's has determined that the skull is human. Jeff Wallis, the coroner, added, "I'm not very optimistic on [DNA extraction] just because of how long it's been in the water." It’s likely been underwater for "at least a couple of years"."
Human skull found by geoduck diver near Bainbridge Island