Jalkojen yhteyttä alueella tapahtuneisiin vene- ja lentokoneonnettomuuksiin selvitellään. Erityisesti yhteen 2005 tapahtuneeseen pienkoneturmaan. Kengät voidaan mahdollisesti jäljittää myyntipaikkaansa ellei dna tuo vastausta.
Families seek expert's advice on floating feet
Limbs could belong to accident victims
Carolyn Heiman, Times Colonist
Published: Saturday, May 24, 2008
A leading expert on floating objects says family members of people lost in B.C. boating accidents have sought his advice on whether the severed feet washing ashore in the Strait of Georgia could belong to their loved ones.
Curt Ebbesmeyer, a Seattle oceanographer who has been an expert witness in court cases, said it is most logical that the feet found over the past nine months have come from an accident on the water.
In each of the two cases, he advised the family to gather evidence of DNA and take it to RCMP to make a match with the DNA found from the feet.
Ebbesmeyer said it is possible the feet have been in the water for "a long, long time. Perhaps years."
Since last August, right feet in shoes have washed up on Gabriola, Jedediah and Valdes islands south of Gabriola. On Thursday, a fourth right foot was found on Kirkland Island west of Deas Island Tunnel in the south arm of the Fraser River.
Ebbesmeyer speculates the Fraser River location might be closest to where the bodies entered the water, based on currents.
The latter scenario would back family suspicions that the feet belong to victims of a 2005 plane crash off Quadra Island. Four of the five bodies were never recovered, and the family has continued the search for the missing four men.
Sally Feast, sister-in-law of victim Arnie Feast, told television interviewers she believes the feet have surfaced after their searches in the crash area disturbed the ocean floor.
Ebbesmeyer said currents can carry objects 16 to 32 kilometers each day.
"Where are the other body parts?" the scientist wonders. "Statistically speaking it is getting very curious."
Every Nike shoe also has a serial number traceable to the plant in which it was made and ultimately likely to where it was sold. "It is like a fingerprint," Ebbesmeyer said.
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