Instead of whales or walrus, two men in Cape Dorset, Nunavut, went hunting for pop on the waters near the community last week.

Paul Kowmageak and a friend heard that a pallet of pop had been dropped from a ship while it was being unloaded to a barge off the southern coast of Baffin Island, and was left to float away. He said he doesn't know which shipping company dropped the pallet of pop.

When they heard the ship was not going to attempt to retrieve the pop, they went out looking for it.

After a short time of searching, Kowmageak and his friend started seeing the cases of 24 cans of Coca-Cola, wrapped in plastic, in the water.

They collected about 50 cases from the ocean.

"The weight of the pop almost sunk our canoe more than once, so we just headed home," he said in Inuktitut.

Kowmageak said his Coke should last for a few months.