On June 6, 1996, our department was requested to respond to one of our park areas for the report of a female found floating in the lake approximately 100 yards offshore. A jet skier had been motoring along when he found himself adjacent to her body floating face down in the water. A police boat responded to the scene, retrieved the body, and transported it to the public boat ramp facility in the area. No on-scene body assessment was conducted by any responding agencies. At that time, no responding officers had the necessary training or experience in conducting a water-related death investigation, so the officers did what they were trained to do, which included securing the scene for body recovery, obtaining any witness statements, and attempting to identify the victim in question. The divers on the scene had no other obligation than to pull the victim’s lifeless body onto the rescue boat for transport to shore.