Tsunami debris spreads halfway across Pacific

Time for Japan to clean their trash floating overseas... Chop Chop!

People seem to forget the tsunami came on March 11th but the power plant blew up on the 15th, so NONE of the tsunami debris will be radioactive what-so-ever.

It would be extremely hard to clean up the debris while it's in the ocean because as has stated most has sunk, and that which hasn't is hard to track. Some of that found would be easy enough to clean up, but how do you clean up an entire house? I suppose you'd have to tow it somewhere where it can be scrapped.

@zichi

Actually, some items may be stuck on the seabed for hundreds of years to come.

But the greatest danger may be from the debris that won't sink and just break down into smaller parts like plastic ... and stay in the GPGP, under the water surface, but not reaching the bottom.

Set adrift on memory bliss.

As much as we want to "Chop chop" and collect those debris, sometime like now it's getting hard just to survive each day in Japan. But we are certainty very aware that all sorts are out in the ocean, floating, in the water or at bottoms damaging/polluting all sea environment and coastlines in other countries and I know just saying sorry is no way enough...

So much junk washes up on the beaches here during a taifu, that the stuff washed out to sea is a drop in the bucket.

OOhhh, thats slow..i did not know water debris takes that long! By the time it reaches, airborne radiation from Fukushima would have made 100 million rounds to and from USA.

gogogo

the fallout has been coming to the US since day one except for when the winds switch to it's southern course so some of the debris may have received fallout like LA.

That is one eerie photograph. Think I'll see that one in my dreams, or while staring out the train windows...

Any radiation from fallout would have likely been rinsed off with the next wave. I don't think things as large as that house would have continued to ride so high on the waves for long. Houses aren't normally designed to be stable in rough seas.

Ranger_Miffy2 That is one eerie photograph. Think I'll see that one in my dreams, or while staring out the train windows

It is, and a graphic reminder of what a tragedy 3/11 was, for those of us who don't live in Japan and see reminders every day.

That is a haunting image. It might become an iconic image of the tragedy.

The thing that still stays with me today about 3/11 is the Youtube video from someone who was in a town when the waves started surging in. He/she was forced up some stairs on a hillside as the water carrying cars and debris inland from points closer to the shoreline rose. A red house next to where he/she was standing came loose from its foundation and started slowly making its way down the street with an occasional wooden "crunch" whenever it collided with something else. Watching an intact (for the most part) house floating down a street was surreal.

Regarding Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, JIM STONE (freelance) runs a very interesting article on it nicked as 'FUKUSHIMA REPORT' (contains lots of pictures and other data and analyses incl. links), claimed that Magna BSP's security cameras (which weighed over 1,000 pounds each) are the culprits. Basically he accused that the explosion was a CONTROLLED event! Btw this article caused a serious rift between Henry Makow and Jeff Rense!

Well, just for curious mind, go for it and read on your own the lengthy and elaborate article.

As much as we want to "Chop chop" and collect those debris, sometime like now it's getting hard just to survive each day in Japan.

The thing is, the plastic threat on the Pacific Ocean has been on for many years, and the tsunami debris will significantly add the concentration of plastic pollutants into the GPGP (Great Pacific Garbage Patch). Marine life: turtles, whales, sharks are all affected. Birds also die from these pollutants by choking on plastic pieces.

These pollutants (debris) may affect the delicate balance of the ecosystems that may affect even the marine life way below the polluted areas, to where scientists have very limited knowledge of (the abyssal depths).

Yes, we are all striving to recuperate from the effects of the 3/11 triple whammy handed to us by mother nature. But by ignoring the other side-effects may decide the future of the planet as a whole.

@Utrack: The fallout in the US? Seriously?

@ gogogo... Here in Alaska we have had radiation levels that are a bit higher than normal.. So some parts of the US surely are receiving small amounts of fallout from airborne isotopes.

Also the high amount of airborne fall out that continues to spew into the ocean from the damaged NPP combined with the radioactive waste water from the NPP that has been dumped into the ocean has contaminated debris...High levels of radio active isotopes (100 times above normal) have been confirmed 475km east of japans coast in the open ocean. I would think any debris that is floating in this radioactive water is being also contaminated.