Quite a few actually
The first was the worst though. I was working at a Ferry company during the school holidays, running on the river Clyde between Gourock and Dunoon.I was sitting in a 'crew only' area having a quiet fag when I noticed some clothes floating on the water. I then realised that there was hair sticking out of the jacket, a shoe was attached to a trouser leg and something white sticking out the other. My God, someones in the water.
Ran up to the captain, told him what I'd seen and he did an about. As we drew nearer it was obvious that the poor f***er was dead. The cap gets on the radio and after a time he's told to return to Gourock. We get all the passengers off and a cop comes on board, we head back to the body. The cop goes to the arse end of the boat but can't quite reach the guy so he gets a boat hook and hooks the jacket. The body flips over and we can see the guys face or what's left of it, two black holes where the eyes should've been, lipless, bits of white skin covered in waxy stuff, brilliant white bones shining through. I just stared at this thing for what seemed like ages, I had never seen anything so gross in my life.
We helped the cop put two ropes around the corpse and very slowly towed it back to the pier. When we arrived there were flashing cop cars, an ambulance and an inflatable dinghy waiting for us, along with a crowd of rubbernecking holidaymakers.
They pulled the body to the slipway where he lay for all to see "Don't look at that man" from mothers to their kids, "Jeez what a f***ing mess" from some, quite a few standing on the pier vomitting straight into the water.
A most surreal experience that left a huge impression on me. Bodies that have been in the water for a length of time are not pretty sight.
Afterwards we were told that he had jumped off a bridge in Glasgow and had floated all the way to Gourock, about 20 odd miles - sea water with fish and crabs and things that like to eat flesh. Just had a flashback there, mmmm didn't need that.
(Jimmyinnz was sprung at work on b3ta on, Sun 2 Mar 2008, 1:25, 1 reply)

I dunno
This has gotta be one of the few QOTW's that clicking 'I like this' just seems a little more disturbed than usual.

your description is most gruesome, but thanks for sharing it anyhow - like many things - once things are seen, they cannot be unseeen.
( Jimmer still not dead at, Sun 2 Mar 2008, 10:02, closed)