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Out of tragedy, one man found his life's mission: bringing lost bodies up from the watery depths. Gregory Thomas When the email about a man who had drowned while boating on Lake Tahoe arrived last August, Keith Cormican was in the Canadian Rockies searching for another drowning victim. A young man was missing somewhere in Alberta’s Lake Minnewanka, where the glacial water is so cold that swimmers wear wetsuits even in summer. By now, Cormican is used to getting pleading messages from desperate strangers. Over the past seven years, he has become one of the nation’s top specialists in a gruesome yet critical task: locating and retrieving the lost bodies of people who have drowned in lakes or rivers. A stout Midwesterner with a round face, gray mustache and glacier-blue eyes, Cormican is not associated with any government agency — no badge, no uniform. ...

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