Saturday 7 April 2012

Coast Guard fires on Japanese ghost ship

The deserted trawler drifted thousands of miles across the Pacific following the March 2011 tsunamiThe unmanned Japanese fishing vessel, Ryou-un Maru, drifts northwest approximately 164 miles southwest of Baranof IslandFILE  - This file photo taken Tuesday Feb. 21, 2012 shows clothing lying in heaps at the site of a neighborhood destroyed by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, in Rikuzentakata, Japan. Scientists believFILE - This file photo taken March 13, 2011, and provided by the U.S. Navy, shows a Japanese home adrift in the Pacific Ocean, days after a massive earthquake and the ensuing tsunami hit Japan's east In a photo provided by the U.S. Coast Guard the unmanned Japanese fishing vessel Ryou-un Maru dirfts northwest in the Gulf of Alaska approximately 164 miles southwest of Baranof Island Wednesday AprilIzquierdo and Kelly observe the Japanese fishing vessel Ryou-un Maru from the ramp of HC-130 Hercules airplane airborne over the Gulf of AlaskaIn this July 24, 2011 photo, debris lies in heaps after the tsunami swept inland across the contaminated town of Namie, Japan, and covers an area where a residential neighborhood once stood. (AP PhotoCanada's Department of National Defence photograph of a Japanese fishing vessel off the coast of British ColumbiaIn this photo provided on Friday Feb. 10, 2012 by World Press Photo, the 1st prize People in the News Stories category of the 2012 World Press Photo Contest by Yasuyoshi Chiba, Japan, Agence France-PrDebris is seen scattered near the Unit 6 reactor building of stricken Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant of Tokyo Electric Power Co., in Okuma town, Fukushima prefecture, northeastern Japan TuesdaThe deserted trawler drifted thousands of miles across the Pacific following the March 2011 tsunami

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