Body found at Poplar Beach likely to be missing fisherman

A body found at Poplar beach this afternoon is likely to be one of the two missing crab fishermen whose boat disappeared last week, reports Julia Scott in the County Times.

A local man walking some dogs along the isolated southern tip of Poplar Beach at 1:40 p.m. discovered the decomposing body of a man pushed ashore by the tides, said Capt. Mike O’Malley of the Half Moon Bay Police Department.
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The body washed up a week to the day that it disappeared, a fact O’Malley said was predictable, because over time, the water temperature causes a body to bloat and float to the surface.

"Pretty much in about 7 days the bodies come back up," said
O’Malley, who had two officers walking the surrounding beaches on Tuesday afternoon, just in case a second body turned up.