Dock float from tsunami washes ashore
A dock float made an incredible journey across 5,000 miles of ocean from Japan to Oregon.
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Newport, Ore.
While scientists expect much of the floating debris to follow the currents to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, an accumulation of millions of tons of small bits of plastic floating in the northern Pacific, tsunami debris that can catch the wind is making its way to North America. In recent weeks a soccer ball washed up in Alaska, and a Harley Davidson motorcycle in a shipping container in British Columbia.
Credit: AP Photo/The Oregonian, Lori Tobias
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