there was a plane crash there a year earlier. sounds like the only bodyparts with rubber soles are surfacing.
I read an article (which I can't find now) that said there was a plane crash somewhere around there 3 years ago and 4 people were as yet unaccounted for.
Floating feet a worldwide phenomenonFive of eight feet found on shorelines worldwide since 2004 have been in B.C.
Susan Lazaruk, The Province
Published: Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Eight feet have been found along shorelines around the world since 2004 in addition to the five found in running shoes in B.C. waters in the past year, including one this week.
They include a right foot in a sock in New Zealand, a right foot in a high-top runner in the Ottawa River in Ottawa, two feet on Chesil Beach in southern England, two in Spain, one in California and another in Merseyside in the U.K.
Most were clad in a shoe or a sock and had broken apart from the bodies, and the mysteries surrounding some of their origins still haven't been solved.
Font:****B.C.'s fifth foot in a running shoe was spotted off Westham Island in Ladner on Monday.
While police haven't released its make, the manager of the Pacific Centre Mall Footlocker in Vancouver said after studying a photo of the shoe that it looks like a "basic Nike runner."
Citing the shape and presence of air pockets at the heel, he said "it looks like just a moderate runner," adding that if it were a long-distance running shoe there would be more padding at the front.
He said it was too hard to determine if the shoe is a men's or women's style because the image of the shoe is blurred.
Such shoes are often worn for everyday use as well as running, said the manager, who identified himself only as Rob S.
Last month, a foot in a running shoe was found a kilometre away, on Kirkland Island. The other three washed ashore in the Gulf Islands, two last August and one in February.
RCMP have released only the make of the shoe in the second case, size 12 men's Reeboks, and revealed the first shoe was a men's size 12.
All were right feet except for the fifth and police haven't said if the left matches one of the rights.
RCMP Const. Annie Linteau said she couldn't release the brands of the other shoes because it could jeopardize the police investigation.
Const. Sharlene Brooks of Delta police, investigating the fifth foot, didn't return messages yesterday.
B.C.'s Chief Coroner, Terry Smith, said his office has matched "dozens of DNA samples that will be hundreds before we're done" of missing people to try to identify the feet.
SFU professor Gail Anderson, an entomologist who specializes in decomposition of bodies, said it's not unusual for body parts to wash ashore.
"It's not just the foot, it's the plastic of the shoe as well, and it's not floating, it's been carried by waves," she said.
Curtis Ebbesmeyer, an oceanologist who specializes in flotsam, said he gets calls about body parts floating in the water "all the time. It's not unusual. What's unusual is that there are four right feet and one left foot."
