In a world where everything's accounted for, it's, I don't know, reassuring that something the size of a ship can get lost.
The rusty, 150-foot "ghost ship" from Japan now floating off the coast of Canada remains out at sea, and it has not been determined who might remove it.
CNN identified it as a squid fishing ship from the Japanese port city of Hachinohe in Aomori prefecture. It was swept out to sea following the earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan on March 11, 2011.
The owners of the ship have not been publicly identified. However, the hull numbers were used to contact the Japanese owners of the ship, who confirmed no one was on board when the tsunami hit.
The ship has been floating across the Pacific Ocean for a year and was finally discovered last week about 120 nautical miles from Haida Gwaii (formerly known as the Queen Charlotte Islands).
I'm guessing that over the next weeks and months more flotsam and jetsom from that horrific tsunami will begin washing up along the Pacific shore.
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