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25 million tons of tsunami debris floating toward US shores

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25 million tons of tsunami debris floating toward US shores | Fox News

The wreckage from the March 11, 2011, disaster could include virtually anything that floats, according to oceanographer and beachcomber Curtis Ebbesmeyer -- and that includes portions of houses, boats, ships, furniture, cars and even human remains.
Independent models constructed by the NOAA and the University of Hawaii show a vast, loose debris field drifting inexorably toward Hawaii, California and Washington -- the first fishing buoys reached the West Coast in mid December, Ebbesmeyer wrote in his "Beachcombers Alert" newsletter. The flotsam is expected to increase, with the bulk of the debris hitting some time in 2014.
"I would not be surprised to see some fishing vessels by April, and the main mass of debris start arriving a year from this March," Ebbesmeyer told FoxNews.com.
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At the risk of sounding insensitive....ew, yuck.
 
Re: the bolded part of your post, how could human remains endure a transpacific journey spanning 1-3 years? Gotta be something hungry enough between here and there to take care most organic material...

Shock factor draws in readers!
 
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Neomalthusian said:
Re: the bolded part of your post, how could human remains endure a cross-Pacific journey spanning 1-3 years? Gotta be something hungry enough between here and there to take care most organic material...

Shock factor draws in readers!
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Unless they're in the cars and boats......double ew!
 
It's going to take 3 years from the date of the tsunami to get here? Wow. That's a long time.
 
So extremely sad. . . people's lives - true lives and material gains from hard work . . . washed up, all trash.

Rather depressing.
 
Thunder said:
try not to think about it. :(
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Too late - maybe some good will come up it: closure for some if they're able to find their loved ones physical remains.

Maybe some momentos and memorables will be returned - pictures and other important items. . . all should be given back. Some items might still be usable - who knows.

That would be a bit of a good.
 
Personally, I don't think human remains will make it across, nor much of anything else organic. If water can get to it, then so can the millions of little critters that will eat it...and in 3 years....not a lot left. As for the other debris, to be honest, I don't think it will be a huge problem. I think we'll have more than enough people to help clean it off of shores and beaches, and more than enough people willing to do what is needed to help each item's former owner to find some type of closure. I see a website taking over this...Because those were some very old villages and towns that got wiped out...a lot of heritage, and a lot of ancestry. If you know anything about Japanese culture, you know how important that is. I would like to think at least SOME of it is salvageable...if not totally pristine.

I also expect to, in 5-10 years, see some of that stuff floating in the Long Island sound...almost everything ever dropped in the Ocean...ANYWHERE, seems to end up there.
 
Damn, the fishing around that thing must be incredible!
 
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