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Experts knew debris from the Japanese tsunami would meander toward North America’s west coast at some point. While smaller bits and pieces started hitting the shores of Western Canada this year, the first major item, a 150-foot squid-fishing boat, now bobs in the Pacific Ocean about 120 nautical miles off British Columbia’s north coast, near Haida Gwaii island.

The ship has drifted across the Pacific for about a year, ever since the March 2011 tsunami in Japan sent it out to the open ocean. Now beat up, but still afloat, the “ghost ship” creeps closer to the shore while officials remain uncertain of what to do with it, having now watched it since it was discovered by an aircraft conducting routine surveillance last week.

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