Many thanks to local Coastguard, Chris Welsford for sending in details and photos of this recent find on our southern shores. Ed
About two or three months ago a visitor arrived on the beach at Blackgang, all the way from Nova Scotia, Canada.
It’s a big steel marker buoy, about 12 foot high and 3 foot wide at its base.
I decided to email the Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, who are the owners. They hoped it was some scientific equipment that they lost of Greenland earlier in the year, but it isn’t.
They have passed the details to the Canadian Coastguard who may or may not arrange to recover it.
The funny thing is that it has laid on the beach for all this time until now nobody has bothered to contact the Canadians.
It’s come thousands of miles (who knows how long it has travelled) and from my examination of it I think it has been in collision with the hull of a red / pink vessel and maybe a whale as the anchor point was clogged up with what looked like blubber or some other sort of rotting matter.
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