Island of debris the size of TEXAS from 2011 Japanese tsunami is headed straight for the U.S.

The Daily Mail Online ^ | November 5, 2013 | Daily Mail Reporter

[Uncle Chip]

A floating island of debris the size of Texas has been crossing the vast Pacific Ocean to the western shores of the Americas since a devastating tsunami inundated Japan in 2011, says a new study.

Five million tons of wreckage - the remains of homes, boats, and other remnants of shattered lives in eastern Japan - were swallowed by the ocean that day in March, and more than one million tons of flotsam continues to head towards the west coast of the US.....

While the first documented debris from the tragedy has already been found in California, scientists fear these new findings mean there could be a lot more to come and it might arrive all at once.

Some of the more mobile items have been documented as washing up on the coast of California as early as 2011. In April, a 20ft boat ran aground at Crescent City, California. It was formally identified as a boat that belonged to the marine sciences program at Takata High School in the city of Rikuzentakata.

In all, 27 items from among more than 1,600 reports of debris have been firmly traced back to the tsunami, NOAA spokeswoman Keeley Belva said. The confirmed items include a small boat found in Hawaii waters, large docks that have washed ashore in Washington state and Oregon, and a motorcycle that washed ashore off the coast of British Columbia.

A soccer ball found on an Alaska island with a student's name on it was also traced to the city of Rikuzentakata. But distinguishing everyday trash from tsunami debris has proven difficult in most other cases......

[wardaddy]

Not if the debris was packing Styrofoam peanuts...lol
But you’re right....first thing I thought too...size of Texas?

How does a motorcycle float to BC?

Air in tires and gas tank?t

Sure wasn’t a Valkyrie...maybe a scooter like post DUI guys use

[GOPJ]

The debris field can't be a surprise... What's next, some brilliant journalists' gonna report some of the stuff’s radioactive - and that the sun's comein' up in the East?

[skeptoid]

nnis Lee Hopper (May 17, 1936 – May 29, 2010) was an American actor, filmmaker, photographer and artist.

. . . sounds like Dennis quit smoking a few years ago

[70times7]

OH MY GOSH!!!

I had no idea what I posted was impossible!

Does this mean the cross country trip with Peter and Jack is canceled?

[70times7]

I'm guessing this was estimated by the same idiots who were claiming global ecological catastrophe from igniting of the oil wells in the Kuwait war.

I'm sure there is a lot of junk out there, but a mass the size of Texas? That's a very big load of something too.

[bgill]

The 164ft Japanese fishing vessel Ryou-Un Maru entered US waters March 31, 2012, on its ghostly journey after being washed away by the massive wave. The ship eventually sank in the Gulf of Alaska

One would think someone would have towed the fishing vessel back in. Lemme guess, we'll get to clean up the mess. hussein will issue another EO to charge us taxpayers and then send a check to Japan. Same with the nuclear waste headed our way. We'll be footing the bill and there will be new US regulations on fishing and contaminated ocean waters. Congress will bend over and not say a word.

[To Hell With Poverty]

This certainly won’t be doing the sperm whales any favors...

[oxcart]

Wow, a stunning monument... he lost 3 of his family members