Calling all scuba divers: if you like a challenge then you just might be up for a task. Apparently, a giant teacup may be at the bottom of the Inner Harbour.

When on the hunt to figure out how the first six-foot fibreglass teacups came to be, which are used nowadays in the MayorB次元官网网址檚 Floating Teacup Race (a silly activity part of the Oak Bay Tea Party), it became known Christopher Causton, a past Oak Bay mayor of 15 years, might know something.

Causton did have some information; he knew six teacups were commissioned by an organization called Victoria A.M., which he helped found for a teacup race in the Inner Harbour in what he thinks was likely 1988 or B次元官网网址�89.

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And Causton believes the teacup is still there today.

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The teacups survived that race ended up at a farm in Central Saanich until they were used at the first Oak Bay teacup race, introduced by Causton himself as mayor.

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Causton said that long lost teacup was never recovered, but if anyone wants to go looking for it, they just might find bragging rights and a fun piece of Oak BayB次元官网网址檚 history.