The devices revealed they were caught up in huge eddies and travelled around in circles before heading south. One object was washed up to the north.
“Having looked at the ocean circulation that occurred through November through February … and having looked at the drifters that we deployed at the same time,” the possibility of Caddick’s shoe washing up so far south, “is well within the realm of possibility,” Roughan told the podcast.
Missing Sydney businesswoman Melissa Caddick’s shoe and foot were found on a South Coast beach.Credit:Seven News
Matthew Orde, a forensic pathologist with the University of British Columbia, also said it was plausible for Caddick’s foot to have been washed up based on the mysterious case in Canada where, since 2007, at least 21 disembodied feet in running shoes washed up on the British Columbia coast.
Orde said a Canadian coronial investigation ruled out foul play. Authorities concluded the feet came from people who were killed either in accidents or by suicide, and the feet had become detached during decomposition.
The reason for the phenomenon of feet being washed up was due to developments in the design of running shoes.
“Over the recent years, they have become more and more advanced in their design and construction, and many of them contain pockets of air filter bubbles in the soles, which make the shoe more buoyant,” he said.
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