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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."
That would be "last week" from last week when inhabitat got the story a week late? The boat was sighted March 20th.
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One slightly used Fishing Trawler. Low hours, 2x Marine Diesels that ran like a dream when last started.
There has been some maintenance deferred last season, but otherwise perfect.
All controls Japanese.
$3,000,000 obo.
Who did what now?
The thing I love most about Slashdot is that they wait until I've completely forgotten reading a story before they post it, so its like a whole new experience.
> Last week, an unmanned boat identified as a Japanese fishing vessel
I'm confused. Does this ship have ghosts on it or not?
You know I can't grab your ghost ships.
That ship will begin the zombie apocalypse.
Learn to love Alaska
Protip; write efficient code:
ghosts = false;
Thats most likely uneducated speculation rather than fact. The meltdown didn't occur until well after the Tsunami swept everything out. The reality is all that debris was swept out to sea well before the plant melted down a week later. The radioactive materials leaked into the ocean weeks after the earthquake and would have been dispersed locally not on boats and stuff swept out by the tsunami.
What was made public about the ship, that she was a Japanese fishing trawler, that she was swept out to sea in a tsunami and was lost... none of that is true. The ship was a secret government project to create a fishing trawler capable of faster-than-light travel. The ship doesn't really go faster than light. It creates a gateway to jump instantaneously from one point to another oceans away. It's called a gravity drive. I built it.
The mission was going perfectly, they reached safe distance using conventional engines. They had the go-ahead to use the gravity drive and open the gateway to Antarctic whaling waters. And then, they just disappeared, vanished without a trace.
Until now.
"Our two-party system is like a bowl of shit looking at itself in a mirror." - Lewis Black
Most of the initial material release was Iodine, the vast majority of which has since decayed.
Of course, your statements are completely un-sourced so unless you can link to such a statement you either tried, and failed, to be funny or are just spreading nonsense.
I think we have only 1 working sub right now out of the deal.
In a submarine war, we'll use strong words in 2 official languages no less to express how displeased we are. When all else fails, we'll apologize and surrender in English or French too.
Well, maritime salvage laws probably apply... so, yeah. Free boat!
Actually, now that I've done some googling, I'll have to retract my statement. No free boat for you!
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/519995/salvage
The objects salvaged always remain the property of the original owner, but the original owner is responsible for compensating the salvor (person doing the salvaging) for their time, effort, and the danger they went through to salvage the property. So if you find a 5 million dollar yacht that has slipped loose from its moorings and is adrift, you do not get to claim it. (Which is a good thing if it is your 5 million dollar yacht which your bone-head brother-in-law borrowed but then, like an idiot, forgot to drop anchor when he took the tender ashore to go to a party, get wasted, and find with some bubble-headed island girl half his age to spend the night with.) However, you can hold onto it until the owner pays you for the boat's retrieval.
Having said that, apparently the owner of the boat no longer wants it back, so the question of ownership is up in the air.
When our name is on the back of your car, we're behind you all the way!
Pfff, that may be true on the east coast, but over here in BC we have war canoes armed to the teeth with rabid beaver catapults. Attack at your own risk!
I suspect they did, but Shaggy smoked the evidence.