Official: Dock found in Ore. is debris from Japan
Source: Seattle Times
A commemorative plaque on the dock showed it was one of four owned by Aomori Prefecture that broke loose from the port of Misawa on the northern tip of the main island, Deputy Consul Hirofumi Murabayashi said from Portland, Ore.
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The one that floated to Oregon was first spotted floating offshore Monday, and mistaken by several people for a barge, said Chris Havel, spokesman for the Oregon Department of Parks and Recreation. It washed ashore early Tuesday on Agate Beach, a mile north of Newport on the central Oregon Coast. It's made of concrete with a metal pontoon and measures 66 feet long, 19 feet wide and 7 feet high
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John Chapman, a research scientist at Oregon State University's Hatfield Marine Science Center, said hundreds of millions of other organisms also hitchhiked across the ocean on the dock - some of which are invasive species never before seen on this part of the West Coast....(more)
Read more: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2018367472_apuscoastaldebris.html
Wow. And no, not radioactive since washed away before the nuke poof.
Bette Noir
(3,581 posts)It washed up within a mile of a marine science center and a NOAA office.
bhikkhu
(10,718 posts)Hassin Bin Sober
(26,330 posts)The guys driving up and down my alley would kill for that.
dipsydoodle
(42,239 posts)AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)I guess probably no more so than a log. Still, one wonders what all hitched a ride.
slackmaster
(60,567 posts)...been one here by way of driftwood, a derelict vessel, etc.
Most exotic species simply die when they are away from their native environment, but the concern may be valid. Several years ago a co-worker who has chosen a vegan diet told me that a relative sent her two live Maine lobsters for Christmas. She and her fiance wouldn't eat them, but also didn't want to give them to someone else only to be eaten. So they went down to the La Jolla Cove and were preparing to release the animals when they happened to be spotted by a fish and game officer.
He gave them a brief lecture and confiscated the lobsters, but didn't formally cite them.
I'm sure the officer and his wife had a nice dinner that evening.
Mojorabbit
(16,020 posts)bettydavis
(93 posts)how the hell are we going to clean this stuff up? get ready folks. Fukushima Disaster II. amazing screen play in this though. trying to look on the bright side. : /
slackmaster
(60,567 posts)Or turn it all into art.
yellowcanine
(35,699 posts)A while back a shipload of athletic shoes which sank yielded all kinds of useful data.
Meiko
(1,076 posts)ship didn't hit that thing. I suppose it would show up on radar but it's still pretty scary.