On September 29th, Jim Swimm, who lives in northern Manhattan, was taking a lunchtime walk in Inwood Hill Park when he saw a body floating in the Hudson.

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Police discovered Hugo's body floating in Reed Pond, which is on land owned by the Ministry of Defence, while they carried out a missing person search for him.

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Wood's body was found floating in a Catalina Island cove off the coast of California.

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Dressed in a flannel nightgown, socks and a down jacket, her body was found floating about a mile from the yacht, according to police reports.

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The coastguard said a helicopter crew saw the lifeless body of one man floating in the water.

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It's an inky blue body of water thick with floating, ancient ice.

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This stimulates the body to grow little spikes on the artery walls called adhesion molecules that snare floating immune system cells and bring them into the artery wall.

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They also include the body of a man, aged between 25 and 35, that was found floating in the Jubilee River in Dorney, Buckinghamshire, in May 2004 and that of a man found dead alongside the northbound carriageway of the M40 in Oxfordshire.

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Body recovery teams pressed on with the grim task of searching for victims, many of whom are floating in canals, abandoned on roadsides and still hidden in flooded homes.

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