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I am your Most Amazing Host, Rebecca Felgate and today we’re talking about the Top 10
Craziest Things Found After a Tsunami.
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SO Tsunami is a seismic sea wave, usually caused by an earthquake or some kind of underwater
explosions.
Tsunami’s can be devastating and can sweep through inland areas, drawing things into
the sea then displacing them.
So, here are 10 crazy things that have been found following a Tsunami….
10 - A Whole Dock Following the 2011 Japanese Tsunami, a 66ft-long
concrete dock from Misawa drifted all the way to Oregon.
The 66ft long dock travelled over 4 thousand, 600 miles across the ocean and washed up in
the United States just over a year later, carrying 5 thousand pounds of sea life with
it.
John Chapman, a Biologist at Oregon’s State University said That dock looked to me like
a chunk of Japan had floated across the ocean and landed on the Oregon Shore.”
9 - Creepy Fanged Creature So this unidentified fanged creature washed
up on a beach in Houston Texas following Hurricane Harvey.
It wasn’t a Tsunami, but the effects of the high winds and rain were similar, chopping
the oceans up and throwing creatures to the shore that otherwise would have been happily
swimming along in the deep.
Preeti Desai took a picture of the mystery creature and posted it on twitter, asking
what the heck is this.
The tweet went viral, and the internet answered – it is a fangtoothed snake eel.
8 - Another mysterious creature from the deep up next…
Footage of a strange, big white creature emerged on the internet after being shot on what we
assume as a camera phone.
The creature looks kind of whale like, although it had people on social media totally stumped.
7 - Slipper covered in Barnacles Woah, I can’t even conceive of something
as flimsy as a slipper surviving over a year at sea, but it did.
Sadly swept away during the 2011 Tsunami, the pink female slipper could have come from
a victim of the tragedy.
The solo shoe travelled all the way to Cannon Beach, Oregon, where it was then taken to
an Aquarium.
The slipper is now on display with other fish brought over to the Island by the Tsunami..
6 - Mermaid So this was actually a tasteless viral hoax
following the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, but I thought we would mention it as it was big
news at the time.
So this picture was part of email hoax, and it shows what people were saying was a real
life mermaid that had washed up in Channai, India following the Boxing Day Tsunami.
5 - Football A football washing up on a beach might not
seem like a crazy feat, but when you think about the journey this ball had to go on to
get to where it washed up in Alaska, it is pretty insane.
This ball belonged to 16 year old Misaki Murakami, who’s home in Rikuzentakata was swept away
in the 2011 Tsunami.
When David and Yumi Baxter found the ball on Middleton Island, they translated the message
on the ball, which had been a good luck gift to Misaki, they were able to trace the boy
and reunite him with the ball!
What a story!
4 - Toxic Waste Eesh… this is not what you want washing
up after a Tsunami …a whole load of Nuclear Waste!
Following the Boxing Day Tsunami of 2004, it seems chemical waste was dumped along the
Somalian coastline.
The UN confirmed that some somalians had suffered from what appeared to be nuclear poisoning.
Similarly…there is concerns about how much nuclear waste being dumped in the ocean by
the Fukushima nuclear plant that was sent into chaos following the 2011 Tsunami.
3 - Ghost Ship How this ship managed to stay afloat and cross
5,000 miles of ocean without anyone living on board….well…
it is nothing short of a miracle.
Sadly for the boat, though, the unmanned journey was to be its last.
When it was spotted a year after the Tsunami off the coast of Canada, the decision was
made to sink the ship.
As it drifted up the coast to Anchorage in the United States, US Coast Guards pelted
the vessel with machine gun fire.
2 - Harley Davidson Following the 2011 Japanese Tsunami, a Harley
Davidson Motorbike was found washed up on Canadian Graham Island in British Columbia.
Luckily for the bike, it was in a shipping container so sort of survived in one piece,
however it was no longer functional.
Using the registration number, the bike was traced back to its owner, Ikuo Yokoyama, who
then donated it to the Harley Davidson Museum as a haunting memorial to the 15,000 people
that lost their lives as a result of the Tsunami.
I picked this for number one because it seemed the most poetic…a real sign of how much
a natural disaster can destroy lives.
1 -Village Sign I mean, this is sad, isn’t it…that’s
how savage a Tsunami can be.
It can totally destroy a village, then send the village sign across the ocean, washing
up on a beach thousands of miles away, a visual reminder of how savage the elements can be.
A sign from Shimanokoshi Village Housing was swept out to sea and found 3,728 miles away
to Oahu Island, in Hawaii two and a half years after the Tsunami.
The sign was flown back home in 2014, where it is now on display as a reminder of the
tragic events.
So….
That was the top 10 craziest things found after a Tsunami….. which of these did you
find the craziest?
Have you ever been affected by a Tsunami?
Let me know?
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