Body found in Inner Harbor
A male body was found Wednesday afternoon in the Inner Harbor, near the Spirit of Baltimore cruise ship, officials said.
Someone called 911 after the body was observed floating near the Light Street pavilion at about 5 p.m., fire department spokesman Kevin Cartwright said. It was unclear how long the body had been in the water, but Cartwrihgt said it appeared to be in a state of decomposition. The race and age were unclear.
He said the body was in possession of the Police Department will be sent to the state medical examiner's office for an autopsy to determine an identity.
Comments
The body was pulled up in front of the Watermark tour boat, not the Spirit
Posted by: anonymous | May 11, 2011 7:38 PM
If the police had the decency to annotate locations using longitude and latitude we wouldn't have any confusion.
Posted by: Cham | May 12, 2011 5:55 PM
And another thought, if this body had been found floating back in 1855 in the same spot the location would have been described as "near Hughes Quay". (of course, first one would have to find the definition of "quay" and why Mr. Hughes would have parked his quay in that particular spot in the harbor). It turns out quays come and go, so do boats, as a matter of fact, so do wharves which are usually made of wood and rot after a period of years.
So let's say a blogger years from now wants information about bodies that float in the harbor and she goes to the Sun's archives for information. She's stuck looking at old maps to find out what was where because each floater is associated with an old wharf that doesn't exist any more, and then she realizes there were hundreds of floating bodies in the harbor back in the day. She curses the Sun's sloppy writing and location annotation technique from yesteryear.
Longitude and latitude, my friends, please.
Posted by: Chams | May 13, 2011 3:04 PM
THE BODY WAS WAYNE PAIGE A CLOSE FRIEND... R.I.P WAYNE
Posted by: Jus me | May 15, 2011 3:13 PM