Courtesy Star Advertiser and Makai Ocean Engineering
The Honolulu Star Advertiser is reporting that officials on Oahu say the first debris from the March, 2011 Japanese tsunami may have arrived. A researcher looking for monk seals spotted a blue plastic container with the name of a Japanese company, Y.K. Suisan Co. Ltd, known to have lost factories in the tsunami. It’s around 4 foot square and arrived with standard Pacific marine life–barnacles, crabs, and sea birds.
It was spotted Tuesday around 150 yards offshore, near Rabbit Island and the Makai Research Pier. A similar container washed up in Vancouver Island in Canada in June.
University of Hawaii researchers say their projections indicate debris will get here and this could be the first.
Read the whole story at the Honolulu Star Advertiser’s online site, http://www.staradvertiser.com/newspremium/20120920__First_tsunami_debris_may_have_arrived.html
