Scuba Divers in Portobelo Look For Evidence in Murder of Jean Pierre Bouhard (Video)

On Saturday, 19 February 2011, a group of professional scuba divers made an attempt to locate missing evidence in the case of the murder of the Frenchman Jean Pierre Bouhard. These are the same people who found his body floating in the water on Friday, 4 February 2011. On that day,rift gold at about 11:30 am they were taking a group of tourists for a recreational dive in an area known as "One Rock." This area is a popular spot because there are channels on the bottom that allow the diver to feel like they are swimming through underwater caverns, however it's open overhead so it's not as dangerous as cave diving. The bottom is about 90 feet down, but heading out towards the open ocean there is a wall and the water depth drops off considerably. They think Javier Martin dropped Jean Pierre Bouhard's body into the deep water, weighted down with an anchor or tied to some other kind of heavy object. Over time as the body decomposed gases formed, causing his body to become more buoyant. When the body was recovered there were ropes and lines - apparently taken from his sailboat the "Levante" - that led down underwater to the bottom. The police officers who recovered the body cut the line but did not recover the anchor or weight,rift gold nor the rest of the line that was used. These guys wanted to recover that evidence in an attempt to assist in the investigation, and they had a police officer along as a witness just in case they actually turned anything up.