Nearly 60 years later, no bodies have been found.
The tragedy that took two young lives at Devils Hole in the Mojave Desert on a summer night in 1965 involves several colliding factors, some unearthly. A hidden lake below the desert; an ancient seismic event; a group of kids from Las Vegas making bad choices; and one of the rarest animals on Earth — the Devils Hole pupfish.
An illustration printed in various newspapers alongside articles reporting the death of the two amateur divers in June, 1965.Four high school friends — David Rose, 20, a Las Vegas casino parking attendant; Paul Giancontieri, 19, a cafeteria worker at the nearby Nevada nuclear test site; and brothers Bill, 19, and Jack, 20, Alter — headed to the spot, 90 miles northwest of Vegas, armed with some amateur diving gear and a whole lot of courage that Sunday night.
The Devils Hole pupfish, named for its habit of frolicking like puppies, is thought to be the rarest fish on Earth. The 1-inch metallic blue fish with iridescent eyes lives only in the upper 80 feet of the cavern, and spawns on the rock ledge that forms a sun-dappled shallow pool at the cavern’s entrance. They are found nowhere else, and no one is really sure how they got there. Their tiny habitat is the smallest range of any vertebrate species on the planet.
Shortly into the dive, at an unknown depth, Bill noticed his oxygen supply was already running low. He recalled the following day that on realizing this, all three divers headed back up.Alter and Rose then frantically dove again to find their friend. When Bill Alter came up for the second time, he realized he was now the only diver to surface. Giancontieri and Rose were gone.
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