Debris from the March 11 Japan tsunami has reached Washington state and British Columbia. According to predictions from a leading oceanographer, Alaskans can expect to see flotsam -- perhaps tons of it -- washing up on coastal beaches soon.
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In September, the Russian ship Pallada reported encountering a vast stretch of debris 2,000 miles from Japan. The Pallada -- a tall-masted sailing ship used to train sailors that visited Kodiak and Sitka in July of this year -- took seven days to pass through the flotsam. By some estimates the area of the mass is twice the size of Texas.
When we were in Hawaii in early October, the debris was not far away from there, and there were daily stories about it in the local paper.
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Yep, and what doesn't wash up on your shores will eventually end up down in the Central Pacific in the junkyard down there...
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