Sunday, December 03, 2006

Hatteras Awash With Doritos

Anyone surf fishing on Hatteras Island last week was in for a nice surprise as thousands of bags of Doritos washed ashore. The massive Nor' Easter that blew through in late November washed four shipping containers off the ship Courtney L as it sailed somewhere near the Virginia-North Carolina line. Three of the containers have not been located, but the fourth was reported floating off Diamond Shoals last Wednesday. In the long standing tradition of maritime salvage, charter boat captains opened the container and found 400 3-foot by 4-foot boxes of Doritos, each holding about 20 individual bags - that's 8,000 bags of Doritos. As the bags later washed out of the container, they began showing up in the surf all along the shoreline where fishermen and locals gathered the sea's unusual bounty. More on the Doritos is available from the Wilmington Star.

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