Wasent' there a soemthing similar, but with running shoes inteh Pacific?!

A cargo ship went down,a dn one board were a shipment of .. running shoes. These drifted aroudn teh pacific, and some university was using them as a water current study, as thyere were being found all over teh pacific rim.. the US, Canda, Japan, Malaysia, etc... And with the known date of teh sinking, andn teh dates shoes were found, they could form a model of teh ocean's currents.