The same again on the 9th of September. He said the first occasion on which anything was recovered at all was the 10th, and the diver then was Mr. Brookes; you will probably remember him. He was the poor officer who fainted when he was in court, and you spotted him first. It was not me. I remember I was looking at you, and it was a bit of a shock, but anyway, that was Mr. Brookes, and of course it is him who discovered the famous rock in the end, so he said or he does not say actually. No, I will have to come back to that. The dive programme on that occasion was supervised by Mr. Pearce. Mr. Brookes told us that on the 10th his brief was to go to the area where the body had been recovered, to search the area and the indentation of the lake, and to return to the shore where the body had been landed. At a depth of about 12 metres he told us he said he found a black ladies shoe, a blue ladies shoe, a ladies leather boot and a small red dress. Those became exhibits PDB1 - 4 in the enquiry records, and of course PDB 5 became the one of which number 19 we have heard so much about. I do not think items one to four were submitted to Miss Rushton, the clothing expert. However, Mr. Brookes said those items on the 10th were picked up by hand, taken by him to the police vehicle and from there went back to the police headquarters at Hutton, where they were dried and handed over on the 16th of September.
On the 18th of September, Mr. McMahon took a video which we all saw. He gave us a running commentary, you will remember. I think we were in a smaller court when this happened, you may remember that. The filming he said showed him descending down a shot line to a weight on the bed. He showed us what he saw to be the indentation, and he marked its borders manually as the film showed. He said he remembered 27 metres showing up on his depth gauge, and he tried to train his camera on the instrument. You will remember he did not quite make it; you have just got a picture of a blurred shot of a watch like instrument. There was a theodolite pole shown in the picture. It looked as though it had been embedded in the lake bed. He said that the pole was within three feet of the depression, and the film showed an area of about 2.5 metres all the way around the pole. He said that one could not see any rocks on the video film, and he said that Mr. Mason, the amateur diver who had found the body, had not pointed out the rocks which he told us about, so whether there was a rocky outcrop or not became a little blurred.