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Clues, Documents And Evidence About The Case
georger:
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Register or LoginTosaw's "raking" of the river bottom near T Bar could have easily missed a body, a rig, or a canopy. Commercial fishermen often drag grapnels and other snagging devices trying to recover lost gear. Even when the exact GPS position of the lost gear is known, the efforts are often unsuccessful. Grapnels and other snagging devices can bounce over or otherwise fail to hook sought objects on the bottom.
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Too bad Tosaw didn't use side scanning sonar gear. Look at how well it images items if the surrounding bottom is uncluttered.
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Tosaw's rake had a huge design error in having the tines extend in only one direction. The rake could easily rotate during descent and drag with the tines up. Straight tines with no curve or barb could easily release a snagged object. Also, in this photo, a lot of tines appear to have broken off.
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Tosaw may not have applied hi-tech gear in his Cooper searches, or even fully thought out methods, as a personal choice based on the 'information' at his disposal. I dont think Tosaw ever thought finding Cooper artifacts was going to be very difficult because his focus was on 'information' vs the technical side of the explorations themselves. His idea to roto-till the beach at Tina Bar (in 1985 five years after the FBI excavation and other searchers working the beach multiple times in the interim) is another example.
Some of Tosaw's divers were experienced and had good reputations. Diver, Curtis Rainey, died several years ago and is no longer with us to shed any light on anything; sorry to say. Its hard to believe that some of these competent guys like Rainy who were young and vital back then are now gone.
It is my hope there will be info on all of this in the future as we continue to work the case ...
btw, Tosaw included Rataczak in his will. Tosaw and Rataczak had a close personal relationship. Their conversations were vital to everything Tosaw thought and tried. That is a fact.
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I need to post a correction: Curtis Rainy is not deceased. Of the people who worked with Tosaw it is 'Blake Payne' who is confirmed deceased. Blake passed away in 2017 after an auto accident. Thanks to those who called with the correction - I appreciate the help!
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377:
That's quite touching that Tosaw included Rataczak in his will. They must have become close friends.
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Bruce A. Smith:
Interesting. Rataczak was also best friends with Himmelsbach, according to Ralph.
jayslick141:
sorry but one more question. the 2 back and 2 front chutes. it is my understanding that NH provided 2 civilian chutes however Earl Cossey has been quoted as claiming he provided 1 pioneer and 1 military chute. Is it possible FBI has instrcuted him to make such a claim for one of the following reasons:
1. public would believe DB died and it was foolish for DB to even attempt such a crime. therefore discouraging others from attempting the same crime. Cossey added that it was a personally altered chute for his own specifications and DB wouldnt know how to pull the cord and therefore died
2. if people claim to be DB then FBI can ask what chute did you use. if they claim it was the military chute then FBI can eliminate them quickly.
i do not know if FBI was looking ahead or not and i cant lean either way on this issue. is it also possible DB was never supplied with a "dummy front chute" but FBI claimed this because only the real DB would know the front chute worked fine.
dont know either way but would like your thoughts
Bruce A. Smith:
The only way to know if the "dummy chute" was actually a dummy chute would be to open it. That wasn't done on the plane, so it begs the question of how important the chute was, or knowing if it was a legit chute.
Besides, he couldn't attach it to anything so for me it is unlikely that Coop used it as a chute.
It is plausible that he used it to descend from a tree, though.
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