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Tsunami debris spreads halfway across Pacific
Lumber, boats and other debris ripped from Japanese coastal towns by tsunamis last year have spread across some 3,000 miles of the North Pacific, where they could wash ashore on remote islands north of Hawaii this winter.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration estimated the first bits of tsunami debris will make landfall soon on small atolls northwest of the main Hawaiian Islands. The rest of the debris was expected to reach the coasts of Oregon, Washington state, Alaska and Canada between March 2013 and March 2014.
NOAA's tsunami marine debris coordinator, Ruth Yender, told an online news conference Tuesday that agency workers were boarding Coast Guard flights that patrol the archipelago. NOAA also asked scientists stationed at Midway and other atolls to look for the debris.
Debris initially collected in a thick mass in the ocean after tsunamis dragged homes, boats, cars and other parts of daily life from coastal towns out to sea. Most likely sank not far from Japan's eastern coast.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2012/02/28/national/a004924S74.DTL#ixzz1nje3nDpq
Swamp Lover
(431 posts)I'm thinking rum based......
Initech
(100,029 posts)How about this: Malibu Rum + sake + pineapple juice + shaved coconut
Swamp Lover
(431 posts)Surf's Up!!!!!
zappaman
(20,606 posts)But seriously, that is a lot of stuff that's going to be coming ashore.
Beachcombers are going to think they hit the motherlode when that starts washing up!
arcane1
(38,613 posts)I wonder what, if anything, will hit the shores of SF?
Hmm.. perhaps I don't want to know
AsahinaKimi
(20,776 posts)could even be a house
arcane1
(38,613 posts)That's amazing!
It would be even more amazing if there were people still living in there
Arctic Dave
(13,812 posts)items?
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)These are people's families, lives, etc. that got washed away.
I think anything that can be done to get important items back home, is great.