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...some 100 divers returned to an underwater hell: the silty tract roughly twice the size of Rhode Island containing the human remains and the wreckage of TWA Flight 800, about 10 miles off the coast of Long Island, New York, and 120 ft. below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean. At that depth, the water temperature dropped to 50 degrees, and pressure crunched face masks painfully against foreheads and chins. Visibility was limited to a few feet, but the visions were nightmarish. Scattered shards of the doomed airliner sprouted myriad electric wires and cords waving medusa-like in the undersea...
EAST MORICHES: After a day of investigation that NTSB vice chairman Robert Francis called the most unproductive since Flight 800 crashed into the Atlantic Ocean, salvage work is continuing on the remains of TWA's flight 800. Ten bodies were recovered on Thursday, leaving only 46 of 230 victims unaccounted for. Also pulled from the ocean was a 40-foot long piece of the plane's fuselage, the largest chunk recovered so far. No explosive residue has been found yet on any of the recovered pieces. The FBI and NTSB still say they have not gathered enough forensic evidence...
...woman strolls the sands of East Moriches, looking wistfully out to sea. The ocean is hoarding its information, loath to yield answers or even clues. Her loved ones have not yet been found and she waits anxiously for the upcoming press conference...
...flare, break apart and go down in the sea. In a second or two, a typically dank Long Island South Shore night goes from languor to amazement to horror. Private vessels are first to rush toward the site through the Moriches Inlet, which opens to the ocean. Zodiacs from the Coast Guard station follow. Cutters come soon after. Emergency vehicles make a long, undulating necklace of light on the roads leading to town. The air is thick with police sirens and slow, mournful fire alarms. Everyone turns on the news...
...Flight 800 plunged into the Atlantic, relatives of the 230 victims have taken the stage to complain of what they see as an intentional shift in the investigation, from retrieving of the bodies to reclaiming much of the 350,000 pounds of wreckage still at the bottom of the ocean. Although the number of relatives remaining at the Ramada Hotel on Long Island has dwindled in recent days, those left have sharp tongues for investigators. John Felice, a relative of one victim, said the families believe that bodies are being left underwater while divers look for evidence for a criminal...