When we put him in the basket to haul him up, he was about this long. Lopez held his hands about a yard apart, as though relating a fishing story, which, in a way, I guess he was. The basket to which Lopez was referring was a crab basket. In its present incarnation, it, and a grappling hook, are the primary tools used by bridge personnel to haul bodies from the moat. This is not to say that the crab basket does not occasionally still haul crabs.
Crabs apparently consider people as much of a delicacy as people consider crabs.
They go for the eyeballs first, then the soft flesh on the cheeks. He didn't strike me as callous or uncaring, just inured. When people land on open water, the result is less grisly, though it still falls far short of lovely. Depending on what position they were in when they hit, very few bones may be broken. Bodies that enter the water feet first or lying flat tend to emerge with the skeleton largely intact.