Tsunami dock removed from Washington coast

March 28, 2013 @ 2:31 pm

FORKS, Wash. (AP) - The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says the last of a 65-foot long dock that traveled across the ocean after the Japanese tsunami has been removed from a remote beach on Washington's Olympic Peninsula.

The Undersea Co. of Port Townsend began the work March 17, cutting up and airlifting out pieces. Company President John Nesset says it was like opening a 185-ton concrete package filled with foam packing peanuts.

The job was finished Thursday.

Japan paid most of the $628,000 removal cost. A serial number showed the dock came from Aomori Prefecture during the March 2011 tsunami. A similar dock was removed last summer from a beach at Newport, Ore.

The Washington dock landed within a wilderness portion of Olympic National Park and also within the Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary.


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  • CH wrote...
    what happen to yesterdays comments? . . . .
    December 20, 2012 4:07 pm
    washed out to sea?
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  • kentheone wrote...
    Tsunami debris
    December 22, 2012 8:58 am
    I can understand the removal of invasive flora and fauna, and testing for radiation, but why spend the money removing the dock in a remote location. Either haul it out and sink it or let it become the shoreline like all the hundreds of shipwrecks. I will be awaiting the price tag.
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  • Ted Bundi wrote...
    @ kentheone, nope
    January 17, 2013 12:13 pm
    removal of the invasive fauna is opposite to the natural cycle on earth. We induce germs/products that change things on this glob. And we will die out.
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  • CH wrote...
    few more docks and we have a new . . . .
    December 28, 2012 4:44 pm
    520
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  • CH wrote...
    a fender serial number?? -
    January 17, 2013 1:14 pm
    not true. they called the 800 number on the bottom and a Japanese man answered the phone. 1+1= made in Japan!! Aw so you, you a_ _ hole.
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