A friend of mine just told me about this a couple days ago, he had something to do with the retrieval. He also said the smell was almost overpowering
I can more than just imagine. Many years ago we found a bloated beaver in the river (didn't know it was a beaver at first). Smell was awful but then we wanted to see what it was so we rolled it over with a stick and the damn thing split open.
The smell was as bad or even worse than a rendering plant.