The main thing was the lack of water. There was also a problem with oxygen, not critical but the body felt it was not enough.

Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves.

My body is a pebble to them, they tend it as water tends to the pebbles it must run over, smoothing them gently.'

It's surprising how many things live in that body of water. You wish the highway wasn't there, but there's nothing you can do about that.

The tall grass in the area, [the body] was down in with some water, but not totally covered with it. Unless you were standing right there, you would've had a very difficult time searching for the body.

We haven't really paid attention to what goes on below the surface in Puget Sound or any water body.