Some debris from the March tsunami in Japan is already reaching the Northwest coast.
A large black float about the size of a 55-gallon drum was found two weeks ago by a crew cleaning a beach a few miles east of Neah Bay at the northwest tip of Washington.
Seattle oceanographers Curtis Ebbesmeyer and Jim Ingraham displayed the float Tuesday night in Port Angeles at a presentation at Peninsula College.
Larger amounts of debris from Japan will likely begin washing ashore in about a year. The float traveled faster because it sits on top of the water and caught the wind.
(The Star)
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