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LEGO® and Nike trainers still drifting the high seas
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Wed, 16 Jul 2003 20:18:13 GMT
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*Thps is old news for some of us. But for others this might be new.*
LEGO® and Nike trainers still drifting the high seas
July 16, 2003
By Paul Carey, The Western Mail
It is not just plastic bathroom toys that have found themselves shipwrecked on
the high seas.
With an estimated 10,000 containers falling from cargo ships every year, the sea
swallows a huge range of products destined for dry land.
While most are routine, some cargo spills contain the rare and unusual.
In 1997 the container ship Tokio Express lost 62 containers some 20 miles off
Land's End when it was hit by a rogue wave. One of these containers was carrying
4,756,940 Lego plastic pieces which were en route from the port of Rotterdam to
New York.
It is thought the sea's currents will have carried these pieces northwards past
Norway to the Arctic Ocean, through Siberian waters and on to Alaska. By 2020
these spilled Lego pieces will have covered most of the northern hemisphere.
Other famous spills have included 61,000 Nike trainers and 34,000 hockey gloves.
The longest distance travelled by one piece of ocean debris tracked by
oceanographers Dr Curt Ebbesmeyer and Jim Ingraham - a World War II life jacket
- was from France to all the way to Australia.
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