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I think any story about Tena Bar money, has to include a prediction of whether the money stayed attached to Cooper on exit from plane. (if for example any human activity was involved with he money on landing)

Most likely it did not stay attached to Cooper.

For a lot of these theories, they're dependent on the money attach to Cooper working, until he lands with a canopy open or not open.

I'm not sure that's true. Whether the money was attached to Cooper or not, it got wet months or years after the crime.

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Remember that the great Amazon, of DropZone fame, lived on her boat at that marina for several years.

I do remember her. Of speed jumping fame. She described going 300mph? or something like that on a jump. And I remember when she had a chainsaw accident with her leg? (gruesome pic)

My understanding is that the money had to be fanned out for the diatoms to attached themselves to the interior of the bills. How would that occur during the dredging process?

I'm not saying it's impossible. I'm just trying to visualize how.

From TK's Nature paper:

"If the previous experiments and investigations rule out diatom infiltration while buried, then the findings suggest that diatoms found their way onto the bills during water immersion. As shown in Fig. 4, a stack of bills once saturated, will fan out in water exposing all surfaces to micro-particles in the water environment. The exposure of the fanned out stack to the river, suggests the simplest way for large, intact but fragile diatoms to be found alone interior to the bill stack. This would have occurred prior to burial and be in the water long enough for fan out to occur."

Second, to be clear, I'm not dismissing dredging. I'm merely asking how a money bag could rest on the bottom of Columbia for years, but only have spring diatoms on them? Also, the bills had to have fanned out for a period of time for exposure to occur. How could that happen in the rather rapid process of dredging?

From TK's Nature paper:

"If the previous experiments and investigations rule out diatom infiltration while buried, then the findings suggest that diatoms found their way onto the bills during water immersion. As shown in Fig. 4, a stack of bills once saturated, will fan out in water exposing all surfaces to micro-particles in the water environment. The exposure of the fanned out stack to the river, suggests the simplest way for large, intact but fragile diatoms to be found alone interior to the bill stack. This would have occurred prior to burial and be in the water long enough for fan out to occur."

Given the fragile nature of the diatoms, would it even be possible for them to survive or remain attached to the money after passing through the dredge ? Being essentially sand blasted ? Or, if you had a bill with diatoms on it, and then washed it in the sink, would they be washed off ?