Storms keep crews from possible tsunami dock
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This image provided by the U.S. Coast Guard shows a large ocean-drifting dock that washed ashore in an extremely rugged and remote section of coast in the Olympic National Park Tuesday Dec. 18, 2012. It was found between LaPush and the mouth of the Hoh River. The Coast Guard mounted a series of flights to locate the dock after it was spotted adrift in the ocean last Friday by fishermen aboard Fishing Vessel Lady Nancy. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration worked to determine the dock?s trajectory based on the reported location at the time of the sighting. It has not been confirmed whether the dock is a piece of debris from the devastating March 2011 tsunami in Japan. (AP Photo/U.S. Coast Guard)
This image provided by the U.S. Coast Guard shows a large ocean-drifting dock that washed ashore in an extremely rugged and remote section of coast in the Olympic National Park Tuesday Dec. 18, 2012. It was found between LaPush and the mouth of the Hoh River. The Coast Guard mounted a series of flights to locate the dock after it was spotted adrift in the ocean last Friday by fishermen aboard Fishing Vessel Lady Nancy. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration worked to determine the dock?s trajectory based on the reported location at the time of the sighting. It has not been confirmed whether the dock is a piece of debris from the devastating March 2011 tsunami in Japan. (AP Photo/U.S. Coast Guard)
FORKS, Wash. >> Stormy weather is keeping crews looking for tsunami debris away from a dock that washed ashore on a remote beach on the Washington state coast.
A spokesman for the state Marine Debris Task Force, David Workman, says high winds and tides are making it hard to reach the site on the Olympic Peninsula. He says a team hopes to arrive Thursday.
Workman says there’s no confirmation yet whether the dock is debris from the March 2011 tsunami in Japan. It appears to be similar to a Japanese dock that washed ashore last June at Newport, Ore. It was cut up and removed.
The Coast Guard spotted the latest dock Tuesday on a wilderness beach of the Olympic National Park.
