Man Found Dead In Car Submerged In Fort Morgan Waters

Baldwin County Sheriffs Office Fort Morgan The Baldwin County Sheriff’s Office is investigating. The car was found just after sunrise Sunday morning by a vacationer.

by Chad Petri

Published: Sun, October 11, 2009 - 8:12 pm CST Last Updated: Sun, October 11, 2009 - 8:16 pm CST

FORT MORGAN, Alabama - A car bobbing in the water is one of the first things vacationer Grady Adams woke up to Sunday morning as he went to the end of a dock used by the Mobile Bay Ferry.

“Looked like to me it had went of the end there's no skid marks of any kind where he tried to stop or anything,” says Adams. He says he was also out last night before the car went in the bay.

“It was dark now I'm telling you but you couldn't see anything but the idea of somebody going through that and not knowing where they're at just didn't seem likely you know,” says Adams.
Investigators with the Baldwin County Sheriff's Office and other agencies spent a good portion of the afternoon easing the car out of the water.

“It's going to be a long process we're still a long way from being able to process the inside of the vehicle at this point,” says Major Anthony Lowery with the Baldwin County Sheriff’s Office. It took authorities several hours to remove the car from the water they say, in part, because this is such a valuable piece of evidence.

“[It’s a] very difficult scene to work when you have a vehicle that's been submerged in water as long as that one and then trying to get it out without destroying the vehicle itself,” says Lowery
Investigators methodically lifted the car out of the bay. They took pictures and tried to document as much of the vehicle as they could before pulling it up. Two trucks had to be used. Cables were strapped around the front and rear ends of the car. While officials seemed to be going out of their way to be careful, the car was inevitably damaged as it scraped against the side of the dock. Machines had to pull the car more than ten feet straight up out of the water before it got on land. The recovery delayed the Mobile Bay Ferry for most of the day making some people patiently wait for a return trip home.

“Well it was kind of scary, didn't know what was going on,’ says ferry passenger Kathy Howard. She was one of the first people to see the car after landing at Fort Morgan just before 8 am. The car appears to be a silver Saturn View with Alabama tags.

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driamaria3 Says:

Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 3:27 pm

This is for cmb1. First off he is from Mobile,AL not Grand Bay. Secondly, it doesn’t matter why he was out without his wife, because it doesn’t mean he deserved this. And my cousin sure as heck doesn’t deserve to be a widow and single mother at 32. Be considerate of the fact that this was our loved one, before you start posting without thinking.

P.S. When God calls your number, it doesn’t matter where you are.

aubiefan Says:

Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 2:25 pm

someone at my work said it was a possible diabetic coma bc he was known to have diabetic attacks…. his family is in my family’s prayers… God be with you

lolo Says:

Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 2:14 pm

What’s really wierd is at 845a when we left from the Fort Morgan side where the car was there were no authorities!We had been sitting there since 815a and no one even knew the car was there until we boarded the ferry at 845a and a passer by on a bike who had just gotten off the ferry pointed down. The workers on the ferry were also unaware the car was there! Bizarre! I took a picture cause it was so strange and I was praying no one was in that car!

cmb1 Says:

Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 1:43 pm

I wonder why he didn’t try to get out, bust a window? It should be interesting to see what the autopsy shows.. Out at what time with out wife?

cmb1 Says:

Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 1:41 pm

You would think someone from Grand Bay would have know the ferry was there?

claycitymadness Says:

Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 9:00 am

yeah there was a sign down there alright , someone had painted over the do not enter though and the sign now says “Special causeway to dauphin island” , wonder where the toll booth is?