Lately, feet have been turning up in the strangest places, or should we say, place.
So, where should you go if you wake up one morning missing your pedi?
The Strait of Georgia, in British Columbia, where, to date, six (That's right SIX) feet in tennis shoes have washed up on shore.
Where did these feet come from?
Police are focusing on a possible link to a plane crash in the area in
February 2005, from which four men are still missing. But it is also
possible the feet come from suicide victims or fishermen who went overboard
off Alaska.
And how did the feet make it to shore?
Bodies come apart at the joints when submerged in water for some time, and
flesh begins to change into adipocere tissue, a soap-like substance
sometimes called “grave wax” that crabs and microbes will eat, experts say.
Curtis Ebbesmeyer, a Seattle-based oceanographer, said that it was very
strange that only feet had washed ashore.
“Running shoes mostly float, but half of all bodies float naturally,” he said.
“The specific gravity of humans is about equal to water. You talk to your
friends: some know if they are sinkers; others known they are floaters.
Heads float too, so you would expect to find other remains. It’s obviously
very puzzling.”
Thank you, Times Online, for the grizzly and downright informative analysis of footloss.
