US to sink Japanese 'ghost ship' set adrift in tsunami

Mar 2009
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The US coast guard is preparing to sink a Japanese fishing boat that is adrift off the coast of Alaska after it was washed out to sea by the 2011 tsunami.

The derelict Ryou-Un Maru is currently about 170 nautical miles (196 miles, 315km) south-west of Sitka, Alaska.
The 200ft (61m) "ghost ship" has no lights, power or crew and is a danger to other ships, the coast guard said.

Poor old ship did well to make it this far.:)
 
Aug 2011
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That ship survived the tsunami, and managed to drift for hundreds of miles, only to be sunk by man. I think it's sad. They should have got on board and salvaged it.
 
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That ship survived the tsunami, and managed to drift for hundreds of miles, only to be sunk by man. I think it's sad. They should have got on board and salvaged it.

It's a fishing boat and that much time at sea without maintenance it's probably too rusted to be worth scrap. So scuttling is it's fate.
 
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