At 11:20 a.m. emergency crews raised the car from where it had landed upside down about 30-feet below the surface. The 1990s beige-gray Honda sedan with California vanity plates "BEV BEN" entered the water on the west side of the lake near the boat rental building.

Sgt. Nick Muyo said that there is no indication of foul play and because of the location of the vehicle and the tire tracks leading to the point of entry investigators are looking into the possibility of suicide.

The 77-year-old man found in the car, whose identification has not yet been released, was pronounced dead at the scene. It is believed that he drove the car from Almaden Expressway into the parking lot on the west side of the park, made a sharp right turn near the restrooms driving onto a grassy area where tire tracks were seen then followed a pathway leading down a small hill to the boat rental building and drove the car into the lake.

A witness who was stopped at the traffic light at Winfield Boulevard and Coleman Road on the opposite side of the lake spotted what he thought was a car going down the embankment and then saw a large splash, Muyo said.

The witness drove to the other side of the lake and went to the location where he thought he saw the car go in. He couldn't make out the car in the murky water, but thought he saw a rectangular shape below and saw bubbles floating up, Muyo said. The witness called 911 at 8:30 a.m. and waited for emergency workers to arrive.

Scuba divers located the vehicle and were able to partially open a door and feel around, but the water was very murky and they were unable to confirm that anyone was inside.

Alex Fraser, who lives in nearby Almaden Estates, said he heard helicopters and sirens from his home and followed the activity to the lake. He was there throughout the morning and into the afternoon when the body, which Fraser said appeared to be a Caucasian male, was pulled from the car.

"[The man] was wearing gray pants, black and white tennis shoes, and he didn't have on a shirt, but I don't know whether [emergency workers] took off his shirt," Fraser said.

In the back window lay a standard-sized pillow covered by a floral pillowcase and the front windshield was cracked and caked with mud.

Fraser said many personal items could be seen inside the car. He said he could see a piece of a burled-wood pipe, garbage bags, a stack of newspapers, toilet paper and three pet carriers of various sizes from where he was standing, about 10-feet from the rescued car.

Two of the carriers were on the back seat and one was on the floor of the back seat. An animal control worker confirmed that all three vessels contained cats but couldn't say whether they died from incident.