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Drifitng, empty kayak makes it hundreds of miles to Florida
August 1, 2010
MIAMI — It began as a mystery. Where was the owner of the expensive, blue-and-white racing kayak that a boat captain found Tuesday drifting 3 ½ miles off Key Largo in the Florida Keys with no one aboard?
The U.S. Coast Guard searched by air and sea, but found no one in distress. Next they turned detectives and searched the Internet, which led to a clue from a man in Africa and ultimately to the owner — alive and well about 600 miles away in the Cayman Islands.
"This is certainly a crazy, crazy story — just bananas front to back,'' Sam Dawson, owner of the kayak, said by phone Friday from the Cayman Islands, where he lives. "Even if you understand the Gulf Stream, it's a pretty phenomenal story of how it traveled that far. And it's pretty phenomenal how they found me.''
The story began six weeks ago, when Dawson, a lawyer, was paddling off the Cayman Islands' South Sound, a sand key where waves come around a tiny island.
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