“I was like, 'Holy cow, look at this!'” said Norma Tunutmoak, who found a 22-year-old message in a bottle carried ashore near Chevak by the storm that battered much of Western Alaska last month.
Norma Tunutmoak of Chevak shows off a message in a bottle she discovered after flood waters from an historic storm in September.
After the storm tossed boats in Chevak like bath toys and scattered debris across the community, Norma Tunutmoak went out to survey the damage. Flooding carried loads of driftwood 17 miles inland from the Bering Sea coast. Tuntumoak, an avid beachcomber, said that she spotted something tangled among a pile of logs.Her eyes lit up as she showed off a brown glass bottle with a roll of paper at her home.
“Half of it was showing from the tip and all the way to the end of it,” said Bruno Chakuchin, who discovered the tusk while scouring the coastline for debris.“Probably like 8 feet and 10 inches and probably a diameter of 1 foot, 6 inches,” he said.Tusks like this are popular among collectors and artists. Days after he discovered it, Chakuchin said that he wrapped it up and shipped it to a buyer in Anchorage.
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