Most likely had suspenders on, sometimes the water will put pressure around the boot area, probably panicked. Well well well, oh well.

Domingo Lorenzo Ramos, 20, an employee with Environmental Water Management in Santa Ana, was clearing dead algae from the pond when the waist-high waders he was wearing apparently filled with water, weighing and pulling him down, said Dean Fryer, a spokesman with The California Division of Occupational Safety and Health.

“It looks like he may have slipped,” Fryer said.

Medical examiner’s investigator James Buckley said Ramos is survived by family in Guadalajara, Mexico. An autopsy will be conducted today.

Police Lt. Kelly Cain said Ramos, who was believed to have been on his first day on the job, was standing in the pond on a 3-ft. lip near a ledge that dropped 14-ft., and possibly stepped off into the deep area.

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