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Grey Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 5341 Gender:	Japanese 'gifts' fill the oceans. Jun 12^th, 2012 at 1:39am Oregon docked with a dock, Canada scored a Harley Davidson, seens likely that Australia received something from the tsunami. http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/world/japanese-import-hits-oregon-158045315.htm...
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freediver Gold Member Offline www.ozpolitic.com Posts: 49204 At my desk.	Re: Japanese 'gifts' fill the oceans. Reply #1 - Jun 12^th, 2012 at 7:24pm Would these sorts of things be cast adrift on a regular basis?
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Reply #2 - Jun 13^th, 2012 at 2:11am

freediver wrote on Jun 12^th, 2012 at 7:24pm:

Would these sorts of things be cast adrift on a regular basis?

Well no, and though I do understand that the Japanese had a lot of problems on their hands at the time, I can't help thinking it a bit irresponsible to allow a floating Japanese marine environment to sail off and bump into another continent.

Similar problems are occurring all the time with ships ballast I know. Can anything really practical be done or has the horse bolted?

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bobbythefap1 Gold Member Offline Posts: 7026 Listen now to the rain	Re: Japanese 'gifts' fill the oceans. Reply #3 - Jun 13^th, 2012 at 9:45am freediver wrote on Jun 12^th, 2012 at 7:24pm: Would these sorts of things be cast adrift on a regular basis? Yeah its happened before when they've had their monsoons I think. But the tsunami took A LOT of stuff out to sea.
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Reply #4 - Jun 13^th, 2012 at 7:07pm

Grey wrote on Jun 13^th, 2012 at 2:11am:

freediver wrote on Jun 12^th, 2012 at 7:24pm:

Would these sorts of things be cast adrift on a regular basis?

Well no, and though I do understand that the Japanese had a lot of problems on their hands at the time, I can't help thinking it a bit irresponsible to allow a floating Japanese marine environment to sail off and bump into another continent.

Similar problems are occurring all the time with ships ballast I know. Can anything really practical be done or has the horse bolted?

Wouldn't there be a lot of natural debris - eg logs that are mostly out of the water and dry and floaty, but with part in the water covered in barnacles - that would get washed off in these events, or floods?

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Chard Gold Member Offline Mein Führer! I can walk! Posts: 1077 Alabama, USA Gender:	Re: Japanese 'gifts' fill the oceans. Reply #5 - Jun 14^th, 2012 at 1:08am freediver wrote on Jun 12^th, 2012 at 7:24pm: Would these sorts of things be cast adrift on a regular basis? Anything that is capable of floatation would be the obvious answer.
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Reply #6 - Jun 14^th, 2012 at 7:14pm

freediver wrote on Jun 13^th, 2012 at 7:07pm:

Grey wrote on Jun 13^th, 2012 at 2:11am:

freediver wrote on Jun 12^th, 2012 at 7:24pm:

Would these sorts of things be cast adrift on a regular basis?

Well no, and though I do understand that the Japanese had a lot of problems on their hands at the time, I can't help thinking it a bit irresponsible to allow a floating Japanese marine environment to sail off and bump into another continent.

Similar problems are occurring all the time with ships ballast I know. Can anything really practical be done or has the horse bolted?

Wouldn't there be a lot of natural debris - eg logs that are mostly out of the water and dry and floaty, but with part in the water covered in barnacles - that would get washed off in these events, or floods?

Yes I imagine that's true. And yet problems have occured with marine life going feral a long way from home. As the oceans are all joined up you might think marine life would be pretty homogenous already. I wonder how much knowledge there is about the factors that enable/prevent the spread of marine life.

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