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JimH

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Seventy Feet of Japanese Dock Makes Landfall in Oregon
« on: June 06, 2012, 06:17:04 pm »

This is the kind of thing we used to talk about when we sailed on the open ocean.  Every once in a while, sailors run into a submerged container or ...

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/66-foot-concrete-dock-washes-ashore-oregon-may-185118645.html
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Re: Seventy Feet of Japanese Dock Makes Landfall in Oregon
« Reply #1 on: June 06, 2012, 06:20:53 pm »

Wow!

What's most amazing is that it isn't caught swirling in the Great Pacific Trash Vortex.
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Re: Seventy Feet of Japanese Dock Makes Landfall in Oregon
« Reply #2 on: June 06, 2012, 07:28:59 pm »

I think the first reported junk was crab or lobster pot buoys

I think I remember part of a harley with the license plate traced back to Japan also.

I just wonder about some of the fish\tuna from that region are ending up in Tuna cans bound for the USA.
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