Uskon silti, että ruumis voi olla Erik. Hukkuneiden tunnistaminen on vaikeaa.
Lähde: https://www.intechopen.com/chapters/19161One of the sign of immersion is skin maceration becoming visible after various time interval depending on the temperature of the immersion water. The skin becomes wrinkled, pale and sodden like a “washer woman’s skin”. These changes appear at the finger tips, palms, backs of the hands, and later, the soles. The next step is the detachment of the thick keratin of hands and feet which pull off in “glove and stoking fashion”. Nails and hair become loosened after a few days. Other signs of immersion are cutis anserine and post-mortem distribution of hypostasis. The presence of mud, silt or sand on the body was described but has no diagnostic value.