A foot has washed ashore in Vancouver, Canada - the 11th foot in running shoes to have appeared on area beaches since 2007.
Eight feet have washed up around Vancouver and three feet have come ashore in nearby Washington state since 2007, Stephen Fonseca of the British Columbia Coroners Service told ABC News. None of the cases have been deemed suspicious.
Fonseca said that human remains can come apart naturally in a water environment, and because of the high amount of marine activity, beaches, and people involved in accidents in the water, it's likely that these are all unrelated cases.
"Running shoes of today are more buoyant," Fonseca said, noting that when a body comes apart, "the shoe will bring the foot back up to the surface and it will float there until it reaches shoreline".
Coroners will now try and build a profile of the person to whom the foot belonged through DNA testing as well as spatial and temporal profiles based on where and when the shoe arrived, how old the foot is, and when the running shoe was made.
