Another Foot Washes Up on a B.C. Beach

The BC Coroner Service has confirmed that a second foot that washed up on a beach this month is human.

On February 12^th a second running shoe with a human foot inside was found on Botanical Beach. On February 7^th a foot was also found on the same beach by a hiker. The person who found the second foot was aware of the earlier finding and immediately contacted authorities.

“The shoes involved are men’s New Balance running shoes, blue and black in colour, size 12. This type of shoe was first sold in North America in March 2013 which implies that the shoe’s owner died at some point between March 2013 and December 2015,” said the BC Coroner in a statement.

An examination suggests that both feet disarticulated naturally from the rest of the body, a result of prolonged immersion in water. There is no indication of trauma or of mechanical severance of the feet. The Identification Unit of the BC Coroners Service will now continue to work to identify the person and cause of death.

These are the 13^th and 14^th feet that have washed up along the B.C. coastline since 2007. The coroner has been able to identify 10 of the previous 12 feet, which belonged to seven people. None of the cases involved foul play.