Sea of Debris?

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Japanese lumber and household goods have begun appearing on the British Columbia coast in what many locals think is the vanguard of a wave of debris from last March’s Japanese tsunami that will eventually clog West Coast beaches with cars, boats and even waterlogged houses. “I found more debris in 10 minutes than I have in four years … and it’s all Japanese in origin,” said Perry Schmunk, Mayor of Tofino, a community of 1,600 on the west coast of Vancouver Island. In addition to Japanese drink bottles, Mr. Schmunk said he has found toothbrushes and a child’s sock. Known in Japan as the T?hoku earthquake and tsunami, the March 11 disaster killed upwards of 20,000 people and swept away an estimated 200,000 buildings. This fall, researchers at the University of Hawaii claimed that 20 million tonnes of debris had been washed to sea by the tsunami, and that, according to their models, it would not hit North America until 2013. In late September, a Russian ship reported sailing through a field of tsunami debris near the Midway Islands — about 5,000 kilometres west of the B.C. coast. Crew members described seeing furniture, appliances and a 20-foot fishing boat from Fukushima, the area hardest hit by the tsunami.

I am just not finding these stories on the news anywhere.
Not even Prison Planet.
lol

That's TWENTY MILLION TONS OF DEBRIS, can you visualize that?

s sister
i've been seeing the story on tv and the paper and on here..tons of stuff

http://abcasiapacificnews.com/stories/201112/3395184.htm
'Cruise' to study Japan's tsunami debris
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The tsunami spewed millions of tons of debris from Japan's coastline into the sea following the 9.0-magnitude earthquake in March. [Reuters]

AUDIO from Pacific Beat
'Unique' chance to protect ocean from marine debris
Created: Tue, 20 Dec 23:29:47 EST 2011
Last Updated: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 21:01:00 +1100

A new scientific expedition has been launched in the Pacific aimed at tracking the large piles of debris created by the March tsunami in Japan.

The Algalita Marine Research Foundation is offering paying tourists the chance to join scientists on a 23-day research "cruise", with prices starting from $US13,500.

The group's president Bill Francis told Radio Australia's Pacific Beat his main concern is not only for the hundreds or thousands of marine animals that die from entanglement in the debris, but the toxic materials that ultimately wind up in the human food chain.

"The issue that I see long term is for human health," he said.

"If we have toxins and other things associated with plastic that are getting in the food web, those become hormone replacement materials, endocrine-disruption materials and can affect the health of entire human population over time."

The Japanese tsunami spewed millions of tons of debris from the country's coastline into the sea following the 9.0-magnitude earthquake off Sendai in March.

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http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/11142543-japans-tsunami-debris-to-wash-up-on-alaskas-beach

The first confirmed report of the tsunami debris came when a Russian ship reportedly ran into a vast stretch of debris some 2000 miles from Japan in September this year. It took seven days from the ship to cross the entire debris which by some estimates is double the size of Texas and weighs from 5 to 20 million tons. Upon the time of the disaster, the tsunami pulled houses, cars, boats and entire neighborhoods out into the sea.
Among the debris the ship crew found television sets, broken furniture, a 20 foot fishing boat marked “Fukushima” and almost any thing that can float. The Canadian television has also shown photos of the tsunami debris including bottles and metal containers that have washed up in the middle of the Vancouver coast.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/15/japan-tsunami-flotsam-debris_n_1152023.html
Japan Tsunami: Flotsam Debris Reaches U.S. West Coast

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Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Could See Tsunami Debris In Early 2012

http://www.kitv.com/news/30058230/detail.html#ixzz1hKTiPG3Y

WWOOWW twice the size of Texas?
That's really big.
Poor fishes.

Something to think about.

If the debris is washing ashore, wouldn`t the radioactive waste water that has leached into the ocean be coming also.....yikes. So much for eating salmon from the west coast!

I think Canada and the west coast has been receiving a lot of the radiation from that disaster Mic.