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First Debris from Tsunami found in Washington state

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Postby Greji » Fri Jan 06, 2012 10:36 am

Coligny wrote:The debris left before the meltdown. So they might be safer than the ricecrops or exported totoyas...

That's why Bucky wants to build a Shinto shrine and place the cider bottles there for worship. Might even include a fish float and a beer bottle for effect. Can't blame him however. Things are slow on the West Coast....
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Postby Bucky » Fri Jan 06, 2012 10:53 am

Greji wrote:That's why Bucky wants to build a Shinto shrine and place the cider bottles there for worship. Might even include a fish float and a beer bottle for effect. Can't blame him however. Things are slow on the West Coast....
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Greji, I figure we can collect radiated flotsam and build our on little reactor here and generate some electricity. Yankee ingenuity!:glow2:
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Postby Greji » Fri Jan 06, 2012 10:56 am

Bucky wrote:Greji, I figure we can collect radiated flotsam and build our on little reactor here and generate some electricity. Yankee ingenuity!:glow2:
Hey that'd work Bucky, that is if you can get through all the new EPA regs. They probably won't let you do it if you have a pipeline to Canada connected.....
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Postby Bucky » Thu Jan 12, 2012 2:34 pm

Not so fast

So far, however, NOAA has not been able to trace any marine debris back to Japan. But floating garbage washes ashore constantly and the agency has received plenty of calls from concerned citizens.
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Postby (1VB)freels » Fri Feb 17, 2012 12:06 am

http://www.thereadystore.com/current-events/2893/25-million-tons-of-tsunami-debris-floating-toward-us-coastline/


Here is a little more about that stuff heading east from the Earthquake and Tsunami...
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Postby Coligny » Fri Feb 17, 2012 5:19 am

(1VB)freels wrote:http://www.thereadystore.com/current-events/2893/25-million-tons-of-tsunami-debris-floating-toward-us-coastline/


Here is a little more about that stuff heading east from the Earthquake and Tsunami...


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Postby Bucky » Sun Mar 25, 2012 2:37 am

Ship ahoy!

A Japanese fishing ship that was swept to sea during last year's devastating earthquake and tsunami was spotted this week floating off the coast of British Columbia.

An aircraft crew noticed the 150-long vessel drifting roughly 150 nautical miles off the southern coast of Haida Gwaii on Tuesday, according to the Canada Department of Defence.

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Postby canman » Sun Mar 25, 2012 8:56 am

That is a squid ship from our port here in Hachinohe, and what I would like to know is how did it travel across the Pacific without being noticed before now? it is not like it is a canoe or something small. You'd have thought another vessel would have seen it before.
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Postby Coligny » Sun Mar 25, 2012 12:54 pm

canman wrote:That is a squid ship from our port here in Hachinohe, and what I would like to know is how did it travel across the Pacific without being noticed before now? it is not like it is a canoe or something small. You'd have thought another vessel would have seen it before.


No Russian or Chinese flags...

Now seriously... if you think those milimeter precise satellite can also track every part of the pacific at the same time, you clearly never tried to find something in my panty drawer...
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Postby matsuki » Mon Mar 26, 2012 12:53 pm

canman wrote:That is a squid ship from our port here in Hachinohe, and what I would like to know is how did it travel across the Pacific without being noticed before now? it is not like it is a canoe or something small. You'd have thought another vessel would have seen it before.


LOL, Japan and Squiding in the headlines may lead minds to things other than sea creatures. :D

A better question is if the owners knew it was floating out to sea, why didn't they go after it rather than let it go floating off to crash into something? Is it like their homeowners insurance where only total loss will get you anything? Japanese coast guard? This can't be the only one either...
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Postby matsuki » Mon Mar 26, 2012 2:14 pm

yanpa wrote:Looks like the owners had written it off and were trying to dispose of it before the tsunami came along and conveniently swept it into the unknown.


http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20120326-00000036-sph-soci


LOL, convenient indeed. New question is now that it's been found outside Japan, does it still exist? :D
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Postby Mike Oxlong » Tue May 01, 2012 5:38 pm

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Postby Sa_Race » Tue May 01, 2012 9:29 pm

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Postby yanpa » Thu Jun 07, 2012 9:52 pm

Japanese tsunami sweeps dock to Oregon beach – video

A 70ft dock that was washed away by the tsunami that struck Japan in March 2011 ends up on a beach in Oregon in the Pacific north-west of the US. State authorities confirmed the dock to be from Japan when a plaque on top of the structure was found and translated. The plaque indicates the dock is from the port of Misawa in Aomori prefecture



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Postby GomiGirl » Thu Jun 07, 2012 10:08 pm

Dock - as in a pier? Crikey.

They must have been tracking this one - too big not to spot on a radar.
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Postby Mike Oxlong » Thu Jun 07, 2012 10:22 pm

GomiGirl wrote:Dock - as in a pier? Crikey.

They must have been tracking this one - too big not to spot on a radar.

Pretty low profile...would that really be noticed?
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Postby yanpa » Thu Jun 07, 2012 10:35 pm

GomiGirl wrote:Dock - as in a pier? Crikey.

They must have been tracking this one - too big not to spot on a radar.


They were probably using a pier-to-pier network.
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Postby Coligny » Thu Jun 07, 2012 11:44 pm

GomiGirl wrote:Dock - as in a pier? Crikey.

They must have been tracking this one - too big not to spot on a radar.


I think you'd be amazed by the size of some of the stuff that can be lost in oceans... And by how bad low flat structures reflect on radars screens...
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Postby LesTalk » Fri Jun 08, 2012 1:55 am

The structure is nearly 70 feet long, 7 feet tall and 19 feet wide and made of concrete and metal.

It probably stuck up less than a meter above the ocean's surface, so pretty difficult to track. Given the amount of seaweed growing on the top, it likely was awash most of the time.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/66-foot-concrete-dock-washes-ashore-oregon-may-185118645.html
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Postby Bucky » Fri Jun 08, 2012 12:22 pm

LesTalk wrote:The structure is nearly 70 feet long, 7 feet tall and 19 feet wide and made of concrete and metal.


It washed up less than a mile from my childhood home. Several of my old high school acquaintances went down and took photos of it before the authorities showed up. Apparently scavengers got to it over night and removed hardware from the deck surface including cleats.
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Postby Mike Oxlong » Fri Jun 08, 2012 12:26 pm

US strips seaweed from Japanese tsunami wreck
The boxcar-sized dock that was torn loose by the tsunami in Japan and washed up on an Oregon beach has been scraped clean of seaweed, shellfish and other organisms and sterilized with torches to prevent the spread of invasive species.

Chris Havel of the Oregon Department of Parks and Recreation says a dozen volunteers on Thursday removed a ton and a half of material from the dock, and buried it above the high water line.

Scientists who examined the marine life clinging to the dock said there was a chance some could establish a foothold in Oregon if they weren't disposed of properly. One in particular was a kind of edible seaweed known as wakame...
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Re: First Debris from Tsunami found in Washington state

Postby Taro Toporific » Thu Mar 19, 2015 12:18 am

Tohoku tsunami debris still washing up on shores in U.S., Canada
The Japan Times (REUTERS) March 18, 2015
Debris from Japan’s 2011 tsunami will continue to litter the North American coastline over the next three years, with everything from refrigerators to lumber and sports balls still floating offshore in the Pacific, an expert said on Tuesday. About 1 million tons of debris was still lingering in the Pacific Ocean four years after a magnitude-9.0 earthquake, the most powerful ever recorded in Japan, set off a series of massive tsunami that devastated a wide swath of Honshu’s Pacific coastline and killed nearly 20,000 people...
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An estimated 5 million tons of wreckage — everything from cars to building materials, boats and docks — washed into the Pacific, and about 70 percent sank quickly to the ocean floor, experts in the United States and Japan said.
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Re: First Debris from Tsunami found in Washington state

Postby matsuki » Thu Mar 19, 2015 2:46 pm

The Japanese team has sent out about 70 battery operated tracking devices that float at different heights to simulate different kinds of debris in order to understand where in the Pacific the refuse has clustered.


Ehhh, how about sending out a clean up crew?
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Re: First Debris from Tsunami found in Washington state

Postby kurogane » Thu Mar 19, 2015 2:48 pm

Because Pacific beri beri biggu!!????? :cry2:
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