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Floating Japanese Boat Picked Up near Midway Islands
Jiji Press ^
| 10/15/11
Posted on 10/15/2011 7:39:06 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Floating Japanese Boat Picked Up near Midway Islands
Los Angeles, Oct. 14 (Jiji Press)--A Japanese fishing boat and other apparent tsunami debris have been found floating near the Midway Islands, northwest of Hawaii, a research center said Friday.
The boat of about six meters long was found among an array of debris such as home appliances about 3,200 kilometers away from Japan on Sept. 22, about six months after the disaster, according to the University of Hawaii's International Pacific Research Center.
The boat, picked up by a Russian ship while in training, had a Japanese word reading Fukushima written on its body, according to the research center.
The boat had a "normal" radiation level, posing no imminent threat to human health, according to the research center.
The debris is expected to reach the shore of Hawaiian islands as early as January.
(2011/10/15-19:31)
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Japan; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: debris; earthquake; midwayislands; tsunami
To: TigerLikesRooster; sushiman; Ronin; AmericanInTokyo; gaijin; struggle; DTogo; GATOR NAVY; Iris7; ...
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posted on
10/15/2011 7:40:19 PM PDT
by
TigerLikesRooster
(The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Wow, a FLOATING boat? Another recent thread with a DEAD murder victim? Incredible, just incredible.
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posted on
10/15/2011 7:41:10 PM PDT
by
bigheadfred
(But alas)
To: bigheadfred
Amazingly some people drowned to death as well. Flags were flown at half mast on the mainland.
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posted on
10/15/2011 7:46:08 PM PDT
by
prisoner6
(Right Wing Nuts bolt Thsese Constitution together as the loose screws of the Left fall out!)
To: bigheadfred
>> Wow, a FLOATING boat?
Sure, as opposed to a submarine, which would be a *sinking* boat. :-)
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posted on
10/15/2011 7:48:52 PM PDT
by
Nervous Tick
(Trust in God, but row away from the rocks!)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Salvaged boat by Russian crews
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posted on
10/15/2011 7:49:42 PM PDT
by
TigerLikesRooster
(The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Yuck. Looks like somebody threw up all over it. That will buff right out!
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posted on
10/15/2011 7:55:49 PM PDT
by
Lockbar
(March toward the sound of the guns.)
To: TigerLikesRooster
It was supposed to be a three hour tour...
To: TigerLikesRooster
Wanted: Woman with fishing boat and motor. Please include photo of boat.
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posted on
10/15/2011 8:02:29 PM PDT
by
BerryDingle
(I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
To: BerryDingle
She was a fast machine
She kept her motor clean
She was the best damn woman I had ever seen
She had the sightless eyes
Telling me no lies
Knockin’ me out with those American thighs...
(AC/DC)
To: TigerLikesRooster
To: TigerLikesRooster
Comes out to an average drift speed of about 0.4 knots.
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posted on
10/15/2011 9:55:30 PM PDT
by
GATOR NAVY
("The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen." -Dennis Prager)
To: bigheadfred
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posted on
10/15/2011 10:27:30 PM PDT
by
djf
(Soon you will need a prescription for EVERY SINGLE VITAMIN.)
To: TigerLikesRooster
6 months? There are a few Battle of Midway jokes that come to mind, given that it was exactly six months from Pearl Harbor until the end of the Battle of Midway*, the but none are appropriate given the tragedy of the Earthquake and Tsunami.
*I'm using the 5AM sinking of a Japanese midget sub by the USS Ward on 12/7/41 and the 5AM sinking of the USS Yorktown on 6/7/42.
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posted on
10/15/2011 11:43:57 PM PDT
by
rmlew
("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers.")
To: TigerLikesRooster
6 months? There are a few Battle of Midway jokes that come to mind, given that it was exactly six months from Pearl Harbor until the end of the Battle of Midway*, the but none are appropriate given the tragedy of the Earthquake and Tsunami.
*I'm using the 5AM sinking of a Japanese midget sub by the USS Ward on 12/7/41 and the 5AM sinking of the USS Yorktown on 6/7/42.
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posted on
10/15/2011 11:44:07 PM PDT
by
rmlew
("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers.")
To: bigheadfred
The Department of Redundancy Department has been notified.
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posted on
10/16/2011 3:56:12 AM PDT
by
magslinger
(To properly protect your family you need a Bible, a twelve gauge and a pig.)
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