Re: Anyone lost a fishing boat?
On Wednesday, March 28, 2012 12:04:35 PM UTC+9, CL wrote:
> On 03/28/2012 11:04 AM, Travers Naran wrote:
> > On 26/03/2012 6:19 PM, chuckers wrote:
> >> On Tuesday, March 27, 2012 7:52:10 AM UTC+9, Wasabi wrote:
> >>> Japanese fishing boat found adrift off British Columbia (Canada)
> >>> Took a year to drift across the Pacific after the tsunami!
> >>> http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2012/03/23/bc-fishing-boat-tsunami-debris.html
> >>>
> >>
> >> The original owner of it was on the news last night (or at least, the
> >> lower half of him was in order to protect his identity.) It would
> >> cost him WAY too much money to retrieve it and I think is said he was
> >> going to let it drift. He did hope that someone could make use of it
> >> but after a year at sea with no maintenance, it is (as can be seen
> >> from the photo) a bit rusted over.
> >
> > Interesting...
> >
> > http://www.theprovince.com/news/wants+salvage+Japanese+ghost+ship/6362762/story.html
> >
> >
> > The Canadian & Japanese governments are dithering while someone wants to
> > actually salvage it.
>
> Yeah, yeah, yeah ... boat, salvage, fisherman, Canadians helping
> Japanese ... now let's go look at the news story that is at the top of
> the "Most Viewed" list:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/79pg2js
>
> I did a TinyURL for a reason ... so you'd have to go look at the page.
> It is okay to click the link. Or, it was when I made it.
>
"Okay" for various definitions of "Okay".
Can't unsee that.
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