Japanese Trawler Ghost ship!

[TheEnd]

http://www.itn.co.uk/home/41878/Tsunami+trawler+fo...


"A Japanese fishing boat that was washed out to sea in the tsunami in March last year has been seen drifting off the coast of Canada."

I wonder if you need to keep painting ships through the year, as that one looks pretty rough after 12 months.

[OzzyR1]

Just shows what a vast place the ocean is if its the first time its been spotted in a year.

Either that or loads of people have seen it but just didn't realise it was adfrift without a crew.

[mrmr96]

TheEnd said:

I wonder if you need to keep painting ships through the year, as that one looks pretty rough after 12 months.

I was thinking that too. Unless it looked like that before it came adrift?

[davepoth]

mrmr96 said:

TheEnd said:

I wonder if you need to keep painting ships through the year, as that one looks pretty rough after 12 months.

I was thinking that too. Unless it looked like that before it came adrift?

A massive pile of rotting fish guts on deck would probably do that.

[Willy Nilly]

OzzyR1 said:

Just shows what a vast place the ocean is if its the first time its been spotted in a year.

Either that or loads of people have seen it but just didn't realise it was adfrift without a crew.

Little bro went across the atlantic in September in/on a yacht. He said he only saw sea. No other boats, nothing.

[davepoth]

Willy Nilly said:

Little bro went across the atlantic in September in/on a yacht. He said he only saw sea. No other boats, nothing.

Visual range is about 15 miles IIRC from the deck of a not enormous ship. Draw two lines 30 miles apart on the Great Circle path between all the major ports on either side of the Pacific and it will leave an awful lot of gaps.

[oobster]

I read this story on the bbc website and they reckoned it would be march 2014 until the majority of the debris that washed out to see during the tsunami reaches the western coast of north america.

That could be grim.

[richtea78]

Would there be bodies on board? Is it a grave?

[powerstroke]

richtea78 said:

Would there be bodies on board? Is it a grave?

doubt it I think people who were at sea were safe would guess it broke its moring and started its journey along with the millons of tons of wood and other debries when the wave went back to the sea...

[TheEnd]

The rang the owner who's still alive, and Ceefax or whatever that kind of thing is called these days said no one was on board, but I'd still say there's probably a ghost or two, maybe even some angry pirate ghosts that have been swimming for centuries.

[powerstroke]

TheEnd said:

The rang the owner who's still alive, and Ceefax or whatever that kind of thing is called these days said no one was on board, but I'd still say there's probably a ghost or two, maybe even some angry pirate ghosts that have been swimming for centuries.

Wonder what his insurance co will say ??? please send our cheque back !! and go to canada with your jump leads and a can of easystart if you want it

[Popeyed]

TheEnd said:

http://www.itn.co.uk/home/41878/Tsunami+trawler+fo...


"A Japanese fishing boat that was washed out to sea in the tsunami in March last year has been seen drifting off the coast of Canada."

I wonder if you need to keep painting ships through the year, as that one looks pretty rough after 12 months.

Ships are always being chipped and painted, the marine environment is a harsh one for anything that is steel, and not stainless! As a cop out you can always revert to rust remover, however, that only removes the rust stain but is great for a quick cosmetic fix.

[Changedmyname]

A bottle or two of T-cut that will soon buff out.

[davepoth]

oobster said:

I read this story on the bbc website and they reckoned it would be march 2014 until the majority of the debris that washed out to see during the tsunami reaches the western coast of north america.

That could be grim.

All you'll get is a spike in the numbers of dismembered feet in trainers turning up on the coast.

The science behind it is that the trainers make the feet bouyant, so they rip off of the bodies as they decay and sink. Being enclosed in the trainer makes them decay slower so they often turn up on shore with a fair bit of flesh left.

[vtgts300kw]

There is a crapload of debris expected to wash up on the entire western shoreline of North America over next few years.

[Jasandjules]

Wow. That is quite depressing.

[Corsair7]

(quote=article]Scientists at the University of Hawaii say a field of about 18 million tonnes of debris is slowly being carried by ocean currents toward North America.
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flipin eck

[strudel]

I guess without a crew to steer it the boat has taken much more of a battering than normal?

[Saddle bum]

That's been drifting since the end of WW2 and there's jap sailors on board who don't know the wars ended.

[King Herald]

Willy Nilly said:

Little bro went across the atlantic in September in/on a yacht. He said he only saw sea. No other boats, nothing.

I've been across the Atlantic a half dozen times on ships, seen nothing for virtually every day of the trip, even though most ships stick to set shipping lanes.