OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK — Divers hope to bring to the surface of Lake Crescent today human remains that could be those of a couple who disappeared more than 75 years ago.
The bones will be brought up in special containers that will keep them in water while they are delivered to the King County medical examiner in Seattle.
There they will undergo DNA testing to determine the identity.
Mapping completed
On Sunday, divers finished mapping the site where a 1927 Chevrolet and what looked like a skull cap and two femurs have been discovered deep beneath the surface.
The car belonged to Russel and Blanch Warren, who disappeared on July 3, 1929. The car plunged off what is now U.S. Highway 101 near Meldrim Point, west of Barnes Point.
Two teams of two divers — one from Olympic National Park and three from the National Park Service’s Submerged Resources Center — charted the site Saturday and Sunday.