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 Posted: Thu 14:43, 29 Aug 2013 Post subject: Tsunami debris could bring shoes with human remain |
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Tsunami debris could bring shoes with human remains,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]
West Coast may find shoes with human remains as more debris from last year's Japan tsunami washes ashore.
"We're expecting 100 sneakers with bones in them,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]," Curt Ebbesmeyer told a tsunami symposium Monday.
"That may be the only remains that a Japanese family is ever going to have of their people that were lost,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]," Ebbesmeyer said. "We're dealing with things that are of extreme sensitivity. Emotional content is just enormous. Navy.
Fast-moving debris from the tsunami, including soccer balls and a shipping container holding a Harley-Davidson motorcycle with Japanese license plates, has already arrived on the shores of North America.
A research team from California, meanwhile, is in the middle of a two-part debris chase in the northern Pacific Ocean. Their mission is to find out exactly what is out there so they can warn coastlines about what to expect in the coming years,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], said expedition leader Marcus Eriksen.
"In the next year, year and a half, you're going to begin to see an increase in the amount of debris washing up," Eriksen said. "Much of the debris that's subsurface is a little more than halfway across the ocean by now."
Some of this debris is a risk to coastal reefs and could pose a boating hazard.
"You're going to have boat hulls overturned or a car tire still on the rim. If a small sailboat hits one of these things, or a shipping container, it can cause some significant damage," Eriksen said.
The joint research venture comprises scientists from the Algalita Marine Research Institute and the 5 Gyres Institute. The first leg from May 1-21 took the team from the Marshal Islands to Tokyo,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych].
The second leg from Tokyo back to Hawaii leaves June 1,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]. It takes them into the area where most of the tsunami debris is predicted to be at this time,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych].
Researchers believe there is a giant blob of debris is below the surface just north of Midway Atoll halfway across the ocean and possibly thousands of kilometres in diameter,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych].
"We're going to sail right through the centre off that,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], skim the sea surface with our nets to see what comes up,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]," Eriksen said. During the first leg they found bottles,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Styrofoam and broken milk crates. They expect to find mostly plastics during the second leg.
"The wood is gone,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], metals have oxidized and are gone by now,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], they've sunk,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], what's left is going to be plastics,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the polyethylene and polypropylene, and anything that is trapping air," said Eriksen.
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