Post #11215 by Alnshely on Thu, Oct 17, 2002 8:39 AM

Aloha Ben,
I read in a magazine there is this big northwestern beachcomber scene. Oregon, Washington and Northern California are in some sort of favorable current for shipping lane flotsam and jetsam. They interviewed a guy who had all these glass fishnet floats. He claimed there are still a bunch floating around the pacific. He had purple colored ones that he claimed were only used on Japanese Imperial Ships. He spoke of two modern incidents of beachcombing that cracked me up. One was a huge container of Hockey Gloves headed for Canada from Asia was washed over the side of a ship. Hockey gloves washed up on northwestern beaches by the thousands. Another story was a huge container of Nike tennis shoes was pushed over the side of a ship. Websites were set up so different people with a collection of these shoes could "match" a pair of size and style. On a side note the difference between flotsam and jetsam is that one is washed over the side and the other is actually pushed over the side. I've been walking the beaches since I was a kid and I've found nothing.
Mahalo,
Al