Fukushima ghost ship, washed away over a year ago by tsunami, floating off coast of Canada (PIC)

[Poll_Blind]

From CNN

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"It looks fairly sound and has rust streak from being out there for a year," said Marc Proulx, the maritime coordinator of the Joint Rescue Coordination Center in Victoria, British Columbia.

The trawler is part of a giant debris field that was generated by the giant wall of water that struck the east coast of the island nation following a 9.0 earthquake, sweeping everything from cars to houses into the ocean.

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It was first spotted by a Canadian military air patrol, and it has since been determined that it has been adrift without anybody at the helm since March 11, 2011, Proulx said.



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[Webster Green]

1. Amazing.

Seems like it would have been swamped and sunken long ago.

[Arctic Dave]

2. Amazing is right.

Interested to see what lse comes to our shores.

[Ecumenist]

3. I wonder if it's contaminated with radioactivity?

[Liberty Belle]

7. Probably not, since the radiation wasn't released until after the tsunami struck.

This ship was probably fairly far away by then.

But that's just my guess.

[Ecumenist]

8. I hope so. It would have had to be quite a distance away for it not to be contaminated. nt

[RZM]

4. Holy Mary Mother of God n/t

[murielm99]

5. Uncanny. n/t

[left on green only]

6. I wonder it there might still be a couple of cold ones

in the fridge below deck?

[Joe the Revelator]

9. THats so creepy. Nt

[rppper]

10. under maritime law.....

one only needs to board this vessel to claim it theirs....just saying...

[aquart]

11. Still seaworthy.

[obxhead]

12. Someone just said awwww shit!

I just wanted the insurance money at this point. I hope they don't tow that wreck back!




It really is amazing what will stay floating through so much.

[Poll_Blind]

13. Saturday Creepy Kick!

PB

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

14. Dude, Where's my trawler?

[Canuckistanian]

15. Amazing

That something so large had been on the ocean for a year and no one had spotted it. I guess it drifted far from the normal shipping lanes.

[Poll_Blind]

16. I don't really believe in the supernatural but there's something inherently creepy about...

...an object like that...just floating at sea...for a year. I can't quite place it. I dunno. I suppose it takes on the role of unspeaking witness to all the strange things that must go on at sea, whatever those things happen to be.

I did a little digging around and came across the strange case of The Baychimo, a ship which was abandoned and wound up floating around the arctic for something like forty years!

PB