[seadog] Sneakers heading to AK
- From: "Tom Blanchard" <tomblanchard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "SEADOG" <seadog@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 22:08:18 -0500
...honest, this is a real AP news release.
I wanna job on that sneaker tanker. BE Safe - Tom
Thousands of shoes lost off North Coast heading for Alaska
The Associated Press
-- Thousands of Nike basketball shoes are heading for Alaska after they
spilled from a tanker off California's rugged North Coast.
Three 40-foot containers fell from a cargo ship in December during a storm
off Cape Mendocino. Some 33,000 sneakers went overboard.
A beachcomber found two new Nikes near Queets on Washington's Olympic
Peninsula last month. Unfortunately, Nike doesn't tie its shoes together --
so the finder has two left shoes, one size ten and a half, the other an
eight and a half.
Curtis Ebbesmeyer is a Washington oceanographer who tracks flotsam patterns.
He studies currents by charting the paths taken by lost cargo. He says the
sneakers are on the way to Alaska -- and his calculations indicate they're
traveling at up to eighteen miles a day.
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