Japan Tsunami Debris Reaches U.S. West Coast - Dec. 16, 2011

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Some debris from the March 11 tsunami in Japan has reached the West Coast.

"A black float about the size of a 55-gallon drum was found two weeks ago by a crew cleaning a beach a few miles east of Neah Bay at the northwest tip of Washington."

"Tons of debris from Japan will likely begin washing ashore in about a year, from California to southern Alaska, they said. Items that wash up may include portions of houses, boats, ships, furniture, portions of cars and just about anything else that floats, he said.

That could include parts of human bodies, Ebbesmeyer said. Athletic shoes act as floats."
Read more: http://www.kcby.com/news/local/Debris-from-Japanese-tsunami-reaches-West-Coas...

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http://www.wtov9.com/videos/ap/international/debris-apparently-from-tsunami-r...
http://www.kirotv.com/videos/news/japan-tsunami-debris-reaches-us-west-coast/...

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  • Gloves and rubber suits don't keep radiation out. Stupid people.

  • @ArgotMay Thanks for the update, oh brilliant and higher one. :P if you are referring to what i said about wearing gloves to comb thru the debris, thats just damn common sense when you think about the things that the tsunami carried away. decaying body parts probably came into contact with the debris that will be washing ashore. just best to be gloved up. And I WOULD be at the beaches waiting for the debris, if I lived near one.

  • I would spend all day walking the shore looking for cool stuff if I lived on the west coast.

  • @BufirdMauhaney me too... i'd wear gloves, but i would certainly go and comb the beach and save family momentos, post them on youtube or something to be recovered by the families that lost them.

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  • All that water that leaked from Fukushima is now here too. Were all screwed now, the fish will be dying and or radiated.  Cancer will be on the rise.

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  • @TheSolowShow Probably, but i doubt they would go showing them like the aftermath of a WW2 beach assault. It would be really disrespectful.

  • @ArgotMay It's called a rain coat...

  • Were there any bodies in there?

  • @Strangedaysrhere

    Especially when non-toxic treatments of cancer are boycotted to oblivion, watch the movie Burzynski as an example, and even the National Cancer Institute admits that there are possible anti-tumor effects with cannabis, in a normal world it would be great news because it's one of the most non-toxic plants known to man. And man can survive on it a while by eating hempseeds.

    Look up Jack Herer and Rick Simpson if you want to know more.

  • @Sheilaaliens Some of those debries might have been in contact with nuclear waste from the breached plants. Heck they dumped a LOT of radioactive water during the crisis.

    Personally, i wouldn't take the risk.

  • @Strangedaysrhere Good thing that radiation only had about a 3 day half life... meaning it's completely fine now... also the dilution of the ocean also means it's fine even if it didn't have a really short half life

  • UNGLY!  mess

  • @ArgotMay ..i guess if it's radiated they won't be able to leave it on the shore anyway??..but the nuclear thing was after the waves..so probably a lot of the debris is clear anyway...i was just making a point about the gloves thing...for example at the recent japanese formula 1 race one of the drivers wore new clothes all the time and them left them there when he left due to radiation paranoia!!..i think if handling radiated stuff that disposable gloves/suits would help maybe :)

  • CHECK FOR RADIATION....So, they dumped a lot of radiation into the sea recently ya...So beware in the next few months. !!!

  • HEY KIRO 7 SEATTLE YESS YESS YESS FINALY

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