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Drowning events occur when a person sinks into a liquid which is sucked through the airway and then goes into the alveoli of the lungs. Diatome is a water plant that is inhaled into the alveoli when the victim sinks. The certainty of drowning in a sinking body that has not decayed will be found diatome on the examination of lung sap. Examination of lung sap is no longer effective on decomposed bodies. The discovery of a diatome in a decomposing body in the femur bone marrow will greatly help diagnose the person drowning or not. The type of diatome found in the bone marrow of decayed bodies which was examined later compared to the diatome found in the place of the corpse was found. This has an important meaning in determining whether the corpse died drowning in the place where the body was found or died elsewhere. In this case the diatome was found in the examination of acid destruction in the femur bone marrow, the victim drowned in the brantas river which strengthened the proof that the body died by drowning.