Remember back at the start of September a 12 foot tall steel marker buoy had washed up on a beach in Blackgang?
Ventnor Mayor and local Coastguard, Chris Welsford, has been continuing to track down its original owner.
Well, the story has now unveiled itself.
The Bedford Institute of Oceanography in Canada have now claimed ownership. They say that it’s a marker buoy that the Institute uses to guard their sub-surface oceanographic moorings against fishing activity.
Murray Scotney, from the Institutes’s Technical Operations Group, wrote to Chris, thanking him for reporting its finding and to say that he thinks that the buoy has probably been adrift for a few years.
Amazing to think how far it travelled.
If you see more kit like this washed-up on Island beaches, don’t hesitate to get in touch, Murray Scotney said that they “encourage people to report any finds as [they] have recovered valuable equipment in the past.”
