🏄‍♂️ Surfboard Lost In Tasmania For 17 Months Winds Up In New Zealand

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Jersey and Amanda Gemnation. I love tales of extreme lost
and found. Yes, it's stub a surfboard, wasn't it?

Speaker 2 (00:09):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (00:09):
Yeah, I was on the news last night.

Speaker 3 (00:11):
A surfboard lost off Tasmania South Coast more than a
year ago has washed up thousands of kilometers away in
New Zealand by a fellow surfer.

Speaker 1 (00:21):
And what Mark Burrows from Channel nine We'll explain.

Speaker 4 (00:24):
Kite surfer Alvaro Bond made the fine in Raglan Harbor
on New Zealand's North Island, a custom surfboard covered in
mussels and barnacles. One minute, Alvaro is a kite surfer,
next is a detective.

Speaker 1 (00:41):
The shape of the board is made for very big webs.

Speaker 4 (00:46):
He hit Facebook and quickly the owner, Liam, a Tasmanian,
came knocking, explaining it fell off a boat on the
Tazzy Coast eighteen months ago. But how did it drift
two and a half thousand kilometers from Tazzy. One theory
it was picked up by the East Australian current. The

(01:06):
other explanation it was caught in the Antarctic circumpolar current that.

Speaker 2 (01:12):
The surfboard went south, got a hitch to ride at
a really fast part of that current and went all
the way around the world before washing up in New Zealand.

Speaker 3 (01:20):
That's extraordinary, isn't it. So it could have gone from
Tasmania to New Zealand, which isn't that big ad on
that cruise, But then it's gone from Tasmania all around
the bottom of the globe and then back past Tasmania
to New Zealand.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
Think about that for a minute. I will some current
try to make off with my board one time, but
I got him.

Speaker 4 (01:45):
That's a long journey to a small house.

Speaker 1 (01:48):
I like extreme lost advances. You do, it's reunited. That's good.
That's a good thing.