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Body recovered from Fort Point Channel near W. 4 Street bridge

By adamg on Sat, 03/19/2016 - 10:19am
Body recovered from Fort Point Channel on the South Boston side

First responders at work. Photo by Sean O'Rourke.

Updated with BFD info.

Around 8:40 a.m., in the middle of the channel, the Boston Fire Department reports.

It's near where two men were safely fished out of the water in December, near where a number of homeless people now camp under the Expressway.

Neighborhoods: 
South Boston
Free tagging: 
Fort Point Channel


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Comments

By SOWABOS on Sat, 03/19/2016 - 11:10am.

It's sad so many homeless people live under that bridge especially with so many new building sites between the south end and south boston.

By JimGaffigan on Sat, 03/19/2016 - 11:29am.

In case anyone was scratching their head wondering where the hell that bridge is.

By adamg on Sat, 03/19/2016 - 11:35am.

Just in time for me to change the headline.

By JimGaffigan on Sat, 03/19/2016 - 11:46am.

I thought maybe you hired an intern for weekend work.

By JohnAKeith on Sat, 03/19/2016 - 2:13pm.

It's W 4th Street bridge. The photographer is himself on the Broadway - nee Jimmy Kelly - bridge.

Tragedy, still.

By adamg on Sat, 03/19/2016 - 2:20pm.

Changed the story - and the time - based on BFD info.

By markk on Sat, 03/19/2016 - 4:12pm.

Of all the major map sites (Google,Yahoo,Bing and Mapquest), only Google shows that body of water as separated from Fort Point Channel by the land bridge that carries Dot Ave into the USPS facility. It calls that separate water "Bass River". It measures only .3 miles long and would seem presumptuous to call it a river. But, hey, it's Google so it must be right.

By JohnAKeith on Sat, 03/19/2016 - 6:05pm.

I don't know when "Bass River" came to be, don't see it on any historic maps.

The river, however, historically ran all the way from Atlantic Ocean to South Bay (or, vice versa, I guess).

http://www.wardmaps.com/viewasset.php?aid=3383

By LookingDownontheQuietMan on Mon, 03/21/2016 - 7:20pm.

for the great information and link - sincerely. Uhub teaches me something every time I tune in.

The friendly (and not-so-friendly) sniping is entertaining, too.