body found in canal

[Aqua12]

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/37467993/man-found-canal-lidl-death-probe/

[blackrose]

Although this case is still being investigated, it happens most winters, usually as a result of people falling in under the influence of alcohol and not being able to get out. We had a floater come past the mooring once at Brentford. 

[beerbeerbeerbeerbeer]

and another today:

 

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/37481654/woman-pulled-from-water-near-flats-manchester/

[Aqua12]

we are from Vancouver Island and are coming next sept to rent a canal boat  and having to learn what to expect on the water ways. so we watch  the YT videos and this forum for guidance

[magpie patrick]

2 minutes ago, Aqua12 said:

we are from Vancouver Island and are coming next sept to rent a canal boat  and having to learn what to expect on the water ways. so we watch  the YT videos and this forum for guidance

 

Splendid - but please don't worry about dead bodies, the chances of seeing one are vanishingly small

[beerbeerbeerbeerbeer]

Yes, most will have been cut in to small pieces for fish food for a Sunday fishing match 

[Jen-in-Wellies]

Things become news when they are rare. If they happen all the time, they are not news. Sometimes an entire afternoon can pass without a body floating by. 

[tree monkey]

4 minutes ago, Jen-in-Wellies said:

Things become news when they are rare. If they happen all the time, they are not news. Sometimes an entire afternoon can pass without a body floating by. 

 

You obviously moor in the posh bits

[Yank on the Cut]

2 hours ago, Aqua12 said:

we are from Vancouver Island and are coming next sept to rent a canal boat  and having to learn what to expect on the water ways. so we watch  the YT videos and this forum for guidance

Welcome Aqua12. Vancouver Island is beautiful (so says an ex-Seattleite) but the canals of England offer an unbeatable mix of industrial heritage, open farm land and pretty villages.  But that all depends on your chosen cruise. Which hire base have you chosen?

[Tim Lewis]

13 hours ago, blackrose said:

Although this case is still being investigated, it happens most winters, usually as a result of people falling in under the influence of alcohol and not being able to get out. We had a floater come past the mooring once at Brentford. 

 

A couple of weeks ago we were asked to stop in a lock for a while whilst an underwater search team completed a search for a missing person. We than continued on but to hear that a body was recovered from the canal an hour or so later. It was quite unnerving to realise that we had passed a body in the canal 😞

 

Tim

[magnetman]

This is always a good watch

 

https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/body-river-application-environment-science-murder

Involves a description about a dismembered body in a canal and why the head was found in a different location. 

 

Not generic youtube junk this is the real deal.

"the bodies of murder victims either in pieces or whole often end up in rivers or canals"

 

A great field of study.

[Ronaldo47]

Fortunately the only corpses we have encountered in canals have been the occasional dead sheep.

[PeterScott]

1 hour ago, Tim Lewis said:

... It was quite unnerving to realise that we had passed a body in the canal

Propellor clumped something under the water ...

... head ...

... gently pushed body to the side with boatpole ...

(before mobile phones) summoned police through office phone of canalside factory...

... police were expecting body to surface...

... eighty-year-old had tied clogs together and jumped into canal ...

... police probationers brought to incident as their first body ...

... fire brigade also there as undertakers didn't attend water-deaths ...

... showed policeman through our hireboat ...

-- one of our crew still abed having slept through incident ...

... woke to be introduced to policeman ...

... sold him a marsbar ...

... unnerving, certainly. Pleased nothing similar in the followinng fifty years on the cut...

... Vince Moran - in BW's time - as Director and sometime acting Chief Executive - said an average of one canal death per week was reported to him ...

 

[cuthound]

I've been boating since 1973 and have yet to find a dead human body in the cut. I feel as though somehow I've missed out...

[Lady M]

Doing so is likely to hold up your cruise.

[GUMPY]

Many years ago when moorings were also on the offside at the East end of Islington tunnel a friend had a body turn up under the stern of her boat.

Twenty odd years later another friend moored on the towpath side had a body turn up under the stern of his boat.

Apparently it used to be a fairly regular occurrence as the water movement would cause the bodies to come down from St Pancras and drop at the end of the tunnel.

[magnetman]

I found a body the Thames at Runnymede about 20 years ago.  A bizarre coincidence was that a friend moored in exactly the same spot a few years later and a tree fell on a car killing the driver instantly. 

[magpie patrick]

Some years ago I encountered a naked lady floating downstream across Pontctsyllte Aqueduct - she was inflatable so doesn't really count 

[Bacchus]

4 hours ago, magnetman said:

I found a body the Thames at Runnymede about 20 years ago.  A bizarre coincidence was that a friend moored in exactly the same spot a few years later and a tree fell on a car killing the driver instantly. 

 

Perhaps you could share the spot so that we can avoid it...

 

A bit further down at Penton we had a missing person last winter - lots of searchers walking and looking in the undergrowth, eventually concluded that the chap was probably dead and in the water so had teams of divers searching the weir and the islands. Mass of police activity when they found a body... which, as it transpired, wasn't the one they were looking for...

 

The Thames claims about ten a year on average I believe. Some fall in and die, some die and fall in.

[magnetman]

https://maps.app.goo.gl/3xefexXHUkLAqNLw6

 

Actually a very handy mooring subject to a private land grab and local authority overreach aka ultra vires action. 

Just a minute upstream of French brothers. Concrete and larssen piles. The people in the house are claiming bits that they do not own and the council is claiming they can enforce mooring controls. I guess the private rights will win. 

 

Handy mooring for overnight.

[Aqua12]

22 hours ago, Yank on the Cut said:

Welcome Aqua12. Vancouver Island is beautiful (so says an ex-Seattleite) but the canals of England offer an unbeatable mix of industrial heritage, open farm land and pretty villages.  But that all depends on your chosen cruise. Which hire base have you chosen?

chas harden on the shoppie to go see the viaducts in Wales 

[Bacchus]

1 hour ago, magnetman said:

https://maps.app.goo.gl/3xefexXHUkLAqNLw6

 

Actually a very handy mooring subject to a private land grab and local authority overreach aka ultra vires action. 

Just a minute upstream of French brothers. Concrete and larssen piles. The people in the house are claiming bits that they do not own and the council is claiming they can enforce mooring controls. I guess the private rights will win. 

 

Handy mooring for overnight.

 

Looks like Bustardthorpe on there in the goggly maps pictures - I think she's gone now, but was there for a handy overnight or two...

[matty40s]

8 hours ago, cuthound said:

I've been boating since 1973 and have yet to find a dead human body in the cut. I feel as though somehow I've missed out...

We shall see what we can do for you in downtown Tamworth....have you ever seen 28 weeks later....

[Stroudwater1]

Nearest we found was a dead tortoise. It was  unnerving seeing its head bob up and down as that’s what our tortoise always did.
 

We stopped to retrieve it in case it was still alive but sadly not. Quite large and not a fairly commonly found terrapin. We did give it a decent burial dug a small grave for it. 
 

 

[magnetman]

13 hours ago, Bacchus said:

 

Looks like Bustardthorpe on there in the goggly maps pictures - I think she's gone now, but was there for a handy overnight or two...

My pin is in the wrong place. I meant the bit just downstream of the with the path and wooden fence. Bustardthorpe is now at 4All marine in Laleham.

To be precise the tree which killed the driver was where A308 is written and the body I found in the River was where Windsor Service is written.

Edited December 1 by magnetman