The Salish Sea Is an Anomaly

There have been a bunch of studies like this over the years where criminologists and forensics experts try to see what happens to bodies under various conditions, including being sunk underwater. They think it's possible that the Salish Sea is an anomaly because this was almost 1,000 feet of water but it's really highly oxygenated. The skin, the thinnest areas of skin typically cover like joints like your wrist and ankles. Those get eaten away first, which exposes soft tissue beneath that holds your hand to your arm or your foot to your leg. And then that gets attacked by scavengers and all the other stuff that's eating it.