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Latest NOAA projections of Japan tsunami debris distribution.

vgabndo - 8-12-2012 at 12:55 PM

It looks like the Viscaino "hook" is the southern limit based on wind and current data.

http://marinedebris.noaa.gov/info/images/gnomegraphic.jpg

David K - 8-12-2012 at 01:10 PM

That's a great link... I see a trip to MALARRIMO BEACH in the future! Malarrimo (Bad to get near) may be a good name if the radiation levels are above normal, eh?

Bob H - 8-12-2012 at 02:54 PM

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Originally posted by David K
That's a great link... I see a trip to MALARRIMO BEACH in the future! Malarrimo (Bad to get near) may be a good name if the radiation levels are above normal, eh?


I'm there with you in Malarrimo Beach when the stuff gets there! Let's do it!

Bob H - 8-12-2012 at 02:57 PM

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Originally posted by vgabndo
It looks like the Viscaino "hook" is the southern limit based on wind and current data.

http://marinedebris.noaa.gov/info/images/gnomegraphic.jpg


So, 30% of 5 millions tons of 'stuff' will wash up on how many miles of shoreline? 70% of the 'stuff' sank just off the shore of Japan.
Interesting article.

Udo - 8-12-2012 at 05:36 PM

I don't know if I would touch any of the stuff that came from Japan recently, unless I have a geiger counter.

acadist - 8-12-2012 at 05:44 PM

Very interesting..............

Flotsam

bajaguy - 8-12-2012 at 06:00 PM

Maybe you can find a Toyota washed up on the beach!!!!

woody with a view - 8-12-2012 at 06:17 PM

most of the crap is scrap lumber that might be able to be dried (yeah, right!) and used as building material. maybe some tires, bottles, etc.... very little usable stuff will have survived the trek across the north pacific during the winter storms......

just more trash that will take decades to decompose.

That is a very accurate assessment Woody

thebajarunner - 8-12-2012 at 07:36 PM

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Originally posted by woody with a view
most of the crap is scrap lumber that might be able to be dried (yeah, right!) and used as building material. maybe some tires, bottles, etc.... very little usable stuff will have survived the trek across the north pacific during the winter storms......

just more trash that will take decades to decompose.


Any things of value will be few and far between
not worth the effort (or possible exposure)

And, I know about exposure,
my ship, the USS Boxer, was the flagship for the Bikini and Eniwitok atomic tests in 1958- some years later I got colon cancer.

Any connection there, Uncle Sam???
Duhhhhhhh

woody with a view - 8-12-2012 at 08:11 PM

My gramps was a crew chief during the tests over Kwajalien. he didn't last long enough to get cancer.

vgabndo - 8-12-2012 at 08:45 PM

I don't think I'd be too worried about the debris being any more radioactive than the waters that carry it here. The planet has taken a tremendous poisoning. There must be a map of that plume.

Edit for YUP.

http://survivaljapan.wordpress.com/2011/10/01/extent-of-paci...

[Edited on 8-13-2012 by vgabndo]