Japanese dock torn off in tsunami floats to beach in Oregon

The Telegraph (UK) ^ | June 7, 2012 | Nick Allen

[QT3.14]

Video @ link...A 66ft long floating dock that was ripped from the shores of Japan during last year's tsunami has arrived on a beach 5,000 miles away in Oregon.

[QT3.14]

Location is Agate Beach north of Newport OR.

[QT3.14]

66' long.
19' wide.
7' high.

Good thing a ship didnt smack into this.

[saganite]

That’s just the leading edge of the millions of tons of crap that will be washing ashore.

[BenLurkin]

Finders Keepers!

[evets]

[tsowellfan]

Harley Davidson from Japan tsunami found on Canada beach

[Wicket]

They’re about a year off on the timing. But they have global warming down to a science . . .

[JimSEA]

I can recall my aunt telling me about a Japanese temple gate that washed ashore near Newport somewhere in the 1930s. I have a little scepticism for the predictions of ecological disaster.

[QT3.14]

Alaska getting it also.

Tons of Suspected Japan Tsunami Debris Wash Ashore in Alaska

[count-your-change]

What? a dock that makes house calls?

[molson209]

Maybe this is how those Chinese stone anchors showed up on this side of the Pacific

[WKUHilltopper]

Remarkable. Is it radioactive?

[sport]

Bookmark

[Colofornian]

"Finds" from Japan --> Oregon via the Pacific haven't always been good things...one wound up killing a pregnant pastor's wife and her other five children...: See Fire balloon: On May 5, 1945, a pregnant woman and five children were killed when they discovered a balloon bomb that had landed in the forest of Gearhart Mountain in Southern Oregon. Pastor Archie Mitchell and his pregnant wife Elsie drove up to Gearhart Mountain with five of their Sunday school students (aged 11–14) to have a picnic, and Elsie and the children got out of the car at Bly, Oregon, while Archie drove on to find a parking spot. As Elsie and the children looked for a good picnic spot, they saw a strange balloon lying on the ground. As the group approached the balloon, a bomb attached to it exploded and Elsie and all five children were killed. Archie witnessed the explosion and immediately ran to the scene and used his hands to extinguish the fire on his wife's and the children's clothing, but he could not save them

Japanese imperialists terrorizing the U.S. less than 70 yrs ago...funny that "reparations" -- when they're brought up -- don't mention attacks like this.

[TalBlack]

If only they had stuffed it full of explosives and sent it 68 yrs earlier. Ah well. war is hell.

[ken5050]

Japanese “Mullberry?” a few decades late for the invasion..

[QT3.14]

Is it radioactive?

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Link said tests came back negative.

[Godebert]

Looks like Hawaii is going to get trashed in about six years.

[zeugma]

Thats’ a fascinating graphic.