{"id":1776872,"date":"2022-12-15T18:17:57","date_gmt":"2022-12-15T23:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1776872"},"modified":"2022-12-15T18:18:01","modified_gmt":"2022-12-15T23:18:01","slug":"hundreds-of-yeti-coolers-are-washing-up-after-spilling-from-cargo-ship-last-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hundreds-of-yeti-coolers-are-washing-up-after-spilling-from-cargo-ship-last-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds Of Yeti Coolers Are Washing Up After Spilling From Cargo Ship Last Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhundreds-of-yeti-coolers-are-washing-up-after-spilling-from-cargo-ship-last-year%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1776872&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Hundreds of Yeti coolers have been washing up on the coast of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/alaska\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alaska<\/a> and elsewhere a year after they spilled from the cargo ship transporting them.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The cargo ship, Zim Kingston, was traveling from South Korea to Vancouver when it got caught in a storm. 109 shipping containers fell off the ship filled with urinal mats, refrigerators, toys, and 1,600 Yeti coolers. Lucky bystanders and people hunting for the coolers have been finding them since late last year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Yetis are still out there,\u201d oceanographer Curtis Ebbesmeyer said. \u201cThe coolers will keep circling the world. You\u2019ll be getting reports of people finding Yetis for the next 30 years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In October 2021, the Zim Kingston was near the Strait of Juan de Fuca, which is between Washington state and Vancouver Island, when it encountered waves of 20 feet and wind speeds up to 40 knots, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/maritime-executive.com\/article\/zim-kingston-s-lost-cargo-included-a-present-for-beachcombers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Maritime Executive<\/a>. Shortly after the rough seas threw containers overboard, the ship <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kuow.org\/stories\/cargo-ship-was-loitering\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">caught<\/a> fire, causing it to lose two more.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ship rolled 35 degrees and, with the height that those containers are on a container ship, it puts a lot of stress on the tie-downs,\u201d Laird Hall of the U.S. Coast Guard\u2019s Puget Sound vessel traffic service <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kuow.org\/stories\/cargo-ship-was-loitering\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>\u00a0at the time.<\/p>\n<p>The fire onboard took a week to put out, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/canada\/british-columbia\/article-stuck-at-sea-the-zim-kingston-and-its-unlucky-cargo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according<\/a> to The Globe And Mail. This was partly due to the hazardous materials that were in some of the shipping containers. Despite this, the ship was able to be saved along with most of the cargo.<\/p>\n<p>The coolers appear to be the most treasured find from the ship, ranging in price from $250 to $750. Many of them are in near-mint condition, according to the Wall Street Journal. Most of the coolers have ended up in Alaska, where some residents now search for them as a hobby. One man told the outlet he discovered 19 that had washed up while searching in his plane. Another couple that found one said the exterior was \u201clightly abused, but the inside was in mint condition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">These <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/YETICoolers?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@YETICoolers<\/a> were all found on beaches near Seward, Alaska: ~1,000 miles from where the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ZimKingston?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ZimKingston<\/a> spilled containers off WA\u2019s Olympic Peninsula. Pics courtesy Duke Marolf. 4\/n <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Z9oLhpDezy\">pic.twitter.com\/Z9oLhpDezy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 KUOW Public Radio (@KUOW) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KUOW\/status\/1567371186207887362?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 7, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Along with coolers washing up in Seattle, two were reportedly found In Hawaii, roughly 2,500 miles away from where they went overboard. Ebbesmeyer, who is an expert in the study of how ocean debris travels on currents, says, \u201cThe coolers are being found exactly where they should be.\u201d He estimates that since the goods were tossed from the ship, they have traveled 7 miles a day. Four shipping containers washed up 200 miles north of the spillage site just five days after the event, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kuow.org\/stories\/cargo-ship-was-loitering\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KUOW<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Yeti President and CEO Matt Reintjes said that the company lost 1,600 coolers in the incident, but he hopes the \u201cnear-new\u201d coolers are put to \u201cgood use.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of Yeti coolers have been washing up on the coast of Alaska and elsewhere a year after they spilled from the cargo ship transporting them.\u00a0 The cargo ship, Zim Kingston, was traveling from South Korea to Vancouver when it got caught in a storm. 109 shipping containers fell off the ship filled with urinal &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1530,"featured_media":1776875,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[9445,9448,6202,3627,5787,9444,9446,6195,9447],"class_list":["post-1776872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-cargo","tag-coolers","tag-daily","tag-hundreds","tag-ship","tag-spilling","tag-washing","tag-wire","tag-yeti"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1530"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1776872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1776875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1776872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1776872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1776872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}