{"id":8376,"date":"2012-06-13T01:11:36","date_gmt":"2012-06-13T06:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=8376"},"modified":"2014-06-27T03:32:27","modified_gmt":"2014-06-27T03:32:27","slug":"huge-dock-washed-ashore-on-oregon-coast-is-debris-from-japans-tsunami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2012\/06\/huge-dock-washed-ashore-on-oregon-coast-is-debris-from-japans-tsunami\/","title":{"rendered":"Huge Dock Washed Ashore on Oregon Coast is Debris from Japan&#039;s Tsunami"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Dock.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8377\" title=\"Dock\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Dock-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a>Japanese officials have confirmed that a huge dock that washed ashore on the Oregon coast is debris from\u00a0last year\u2019s tsunami \u2013 the first to reach the state from last year\u2019s disaster in Japan.<\/p>\n<p>Disposing of the dock washed up on\u00a0Agate Beach could be a challenge, because its concrete exterior conceals high-tensile steel cables, said Hirofumi Murabayashi, deputy consul general at the\u00a0Japanese Consulate in Portland. But the chief engineer of the Tokyo company that made the dock said later that dismantling it won&#8217;t be dangerous.<\/p>\n<p>The tsunami cut the dock loose in\u00a0Misawa, a northern Japanese city struck by powerful waves on March 11, 2011, Murabayashi told The Oregonian on Wednesday.<img title=\"More...\" src=\"http:\/\/bwsailing.com\/news\/wp-includes\/js\/tinymce\/plugins\/wordpress\/img\/trans.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s one of four floating docks washed away by the tsunami, which means there are three more floating somewhere possibly,\u201d Murabayashi said. \u201cIn Oregon this is the first item obviously from the tsunami.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Japanese officials in Seattle forwarded information on a plaque attached to the dock to Japan\u2019s Foreign Ministry in Tokyo. From that information, officials determined the dock is owned by\u00a0Aomori prefecture, the northernmost state on Japan\u2019s main island of Honshu.<\/p>\n<p>Oregon officials didn&#8217;t know until the Portland consulate confirmed the information Wednesday that the dock on Agate Beach, a mile north of Newport, Ore., came from Japan and was broken loose by the tsunami.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe owner is Aomori prefecture, but they do not wish to have it returned,\u201d Murabayashi said. He said he had conveyed the information about the dock to the\u00a0Oregon Parks and Recreation Department,\u00a0which is handling the matter.<\/p>\n<p>Courtesy of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/pacific-northwest-news\/index.ssf\/2012\/06\/huge_dock_washed_ashore_on_ore.html\">www.oregonlive.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese officials have confirmed that a huge dock that washed ashore on the Oregon coast is debris from\u00a0last year\u2019s tsunami \u2013 the first to reach the state from last year\u2019s disaster in Japan. Disposing of the dock washed up on\u00a0Agate Beach could be a challenge, because its concrete exterior conceals high-tensile steel cables, said Hirofumi Murabayashi, deputy consul general at the\u00a0Japanese Consulate in Portland. But the chief engineer of the Tokyo company that made the dock said later that dismantling it won&#8217;t be dangerous. The tsunami cut the dock loose in\u00a0Misawa, a northern Japanese city struck by powerful waves on March 11, 2011, Murabayashi told The Oregonian on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8376"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}