Tsunami-swept Harley in container found in Canada
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Yokoyama wasted three members of his family in the March 11, 2011, tsunami, and is now living in stopgap housing in Miyagi prefecture (state).
The motorcycle is among the first items wanton in the tsunami to reach the west coast of North America. In Slog, an Alaska man found a football and later a volleyball from Japan; their owners were located last week using names that had been inscribed on the balls.
Canadian Peter Brand, who found the bike and its container, told Fuji that he "couldn't believe that something like that would pull down it across the Pacific." The report said he found it April 18 on Graham Holm, off the coast of British Columbia.
The motorcyle was caked with "a lot of corrosion, a lot of rust," said Brand.
When he saw the Japanese license plate, Mark wondered if it might have drifted from Japan after the tsunami, and contacted a municipal TV station.
The Fuji report said the motorcycle would be shipped back to Japan, and that the purchase that sold it to Yokoyama would help with paperwork and storage.
Debris from the tsunami initially gathered in the deep blue sea off Japan's northeastern coast and has since spread out across the Pacific. In February, the Jingoistic Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said currents would carry much of the debris to the coasts of Alaska, Canada, Washington and Oregon between Trek 2013 and 2014, though they correctly predicted that some of it could arrive this year.
Last month, a U.S. Sea-coast Guard cutter fired on and sank a fishing boat in the Creek of Alaska that had drifted from Japan after the disaster. Authorities had deemed the take off a hazard to shipping and to the coastline.
Source: Belleville News Democrat