Friday, August 28, 2009

A sea of sneakers

This story is told in the book `An Introduction to the World's Oceans´.
When on May 27th 1990, 78,932 Nike sneakers fell overboard on their
way to the US from South Korea, a quick-thinking oceanographer
realized that keepingtrack of where the sneakers eventually beached
would tell the world a lot about how the ocean moves.




Sneakers and toys after their rescue from cargo spills






2 comments:

  1. Also schwimmen irgendwo noch nen paar AJKO's new in box rum? Ich brauch nen Tauchkurs und nen Boot!

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  2. Da die Lieferung von 1990 war, waren da wohl warscheinlich keine AJKOs bei, aber es gibt ja noch andere schöne Sachen aus der Zeit....

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