[morbid] Bodies lost in water.....

[Catzilla]

billb wrote:
several inches of body fat would likely float and get wind driven to a beach

a leaner body would sink for several days and then the gasses from decomposition would refloat it unless the carcass vented and didn't float. Then the perch and trout might nibble at it.

Exactly. We have done rescues that became unsuccessful recoveries. Several weeks/days later they surface.