Initial Drownings Research & Notes

David Bird

- American journalist
- Disappeared on January 11th 2014 on a walk in his nearby woods.
- Severe winter weather.
- Left his phone at home.
- Searches were organised for two weeks then got set back for two months due to weather conditions, the search resumed in March.
- March 18th 2015 two canoeists found Bird's red jacket tangled in branches on the river Passaic one mile from his home.
- Authorities found his body 7ft underwater, determined to be accidental drowning.
- Conspiracy theories arose.


Whitney Houston

- American singer, actress, producer and model. Cited as the most awarded female act of all time by the Guinness World Records.
- Last public performance was with Kelly Price in Hollywood, February 9th 2012. She previously visited singers at rehearsals for Clive Davis' pre-Grammy awards party at The Beverly Hilton.
- February 11th she was found unconscious and submerged in the bathtub.
- Paramedics arived at 3:00pm, performed CPR and pronounced her dead at 3:50pm.
- Her toxicology report stated that the cause of death was a result of heart disease and cocaine use. Cannabis and cocaine were found in her system.
- Memorial on February 18th in Newark, New Jersey and buried on February 19th in Westfield, New Jersey.


Marie-France Pisier

- French actress, screenwriter and director. Earned the national Cesar Award for best supporting actress twice.
- Found dead in her swimming pool on April 24th 2011 at age 66. Belived to have drowned.

Katoucha Niane

- French model, nicknamed 'The Peul Princess' but worked and wrote under the single name 'Katoucha'.
- She lived on a houseboat on the river Seine near the Alexander III bridge.
- She returned from a party on February 1st 2008, last time she was reportedly seen alive.
- Missing persons case opened on February 4th.
- Her purse was found untouched outside the door to her boat.
- Her body was found on February 28th in the river, dead from accidental drowning and likely intoxication.
- Family believed she may have been a victim of foul play.

Jermemy Blake

- American digital artist and painter.
- July 10th 2007 Blake found Theresa Duncan (girlfriend) dead in their apartment (suicide).
- July 17th Blake was reported missing off Rockaway Beach, New York. A woman called 911 to report seeing a man walking into the ocean.
- Blake's clothes and wallet were found along with a suicide note referring to Duncan.
- July 22nd Blake's body was found by a fisherman in waters off Sea Girt, New Jersey. Death presumed to be suicide by drowning.
- Prior to both deaths they reported that they were followed and harassed by Scientologists.

Jeff Buckley

- American singer-songwriter and guitarist.
- May 29th 2007 Buckley went swimming in Wolf River Harbor, a slack water channel of the Mississippi River, wearing his clothes and boots.
- Keith Foti stayed on land to move the guitar and radio, he looked back up to see that Buckley has vanished. The rescue effort that night failed.
- June 4th Buckley's body was found by two locals in the Wolf River.
- "Jeff Buckley's death was not 'mysterious', related to drugs, alcohol or suicide. We have a police report, a medical examiner's report, and an eye witness to prove that it was an accidental drowning, and that Mr. Buckley was in a good fram of mind prior to the accident."          - Buckley estate

Tom Mees

- American sportscaster.
- August 14th 1996 Mees drowned in his neighbor's swimming pool, not knowing how to swim.
- Police said that Mees has jumped into the pool to save Gabrielle (his daughter).
- The later retracted that statment and said that they did not know how he got into the pool and that Gabrielle had never been there.

Dennis Wilson

- American musician, singer and songwriter who co-gounded the Beach Boys.
- Prior to his death he speant a month homeless and living like a nomad, moving from one place to another.
- December 28th 1983 he drowned at Marina Del Ray, Los Angelese. He drank all day the dived to recover posesions thrown overboard from his yacht three years previous.
- His body was buried at sea on January 4th 1984.


Viola Beach

- February 13th 2016.
- Four band members + manager.
- Car drove through a gap in the E4 bridge (Stockholm, Sweden) that was open to let a boat through.
The police officer in charge of the investigation was quoted as saying, "We have been able to see that the car braked before reaching the bridge. That allows us to rule out that the driver fell asleep. But what has actually happened is completely inexplicable. Right now there is no hypothesis.”


The paragraphs in italics are the people I will base my final piece on.

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