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Japanese Tsunami Ghost Ship Spotted Off Canadian Coast

An anonymous reader writes with an excerpt from an article in Inhabitat: "After Japan was hit with a devastating earthquake in March 2011, the Pacific nation was rocked by a massive tsunami that destroyed thousands of coastal houses, cars and boats and swept millions of tons of debris out into the ocean. Now, it looks like some of that debris could be approaching North America. Last week, an unmanned boat identified as a Japanese fishing vessel was spotted off the coast of Canada, indicating that after more than a year, some of that debris could still be on its way to American and Canadian shores."

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  1. Re:FOR SALE: Fishing Trawler by scheme · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Do you have clean title? Yeah, this is a bigger question than what is looks like

    The parent isn't far off from the truth. I think salvage law would award a moderately large percentage (20-50%) of the value of the ship to anyone that boards and salvages the ship. Even a crappy boat would probably be worth six figures so any salvage crews could be looking at a decent amount of money if they succeed.

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  2. Re:Want a ship? by viperidaenz · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I was actually referring to this...