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The tsunami ghost ship Ryou-Un Maru

In March 2012 the empty Japanese fishing boat Ryou-Un Maru, swept out to sea by the 2011 Tōhoku tsunami, was found drifting off Canada after a year adrift; the US Coast Guard sank it with gunfire on 5 April 2012.

2012 CE · 57.40, -138.50 · status: explained

The account

The boat had drifted some 7,000 km across the Pacific without anyone aboard.

Sources

  1. Wikipedia: Ryou-Un Maru
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