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April 6th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Officials decided to sink the ship, rather than risk the chance of it running
aground or endangering other vessels in the busy shipping lanes between
North America and Asia.
The ship had no lights or communications system and its tank was able to carry
more than 2,000 gallons of diesel fuel. Officials, however, didn’t know how
much fuel, if any, was aboard.
“It’s less risky than it would be running into shore or running into
(maritime) traffic,” Mr Webb said.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Environmental
Protection Agency studied the problem and decided it is safer to sink the
ship and let the fuel evaporate in the open water.
The ship was at Hokkaido, Japan, and destined for scrapping when a magnitude-9
earthquake that struck the country in March 2011 triggered a tsunami.
The waves dislodged the vessel and set it adrift. In total, about 5 million
tons of debris were swept out to sea.
The boat did not have any cargo aboard, Webb said. He said he didn’t know who
owned the Ryou-Un Maru, which had been traveling about 1 mph in recent days.
As the Coast Guard was readying to fire on the vessel, a Canadian fishing
vessel, the 62-foot Bernice C, claimed salvage rights over the ghost ship.
Plans to sink it were halted so the Canadian crew could have a chance to take
the stricken ship. A Canadian official with knowledge of the situation told
The Associated Press that the Bernice C was unable to tow it.
When the boat left the area, the Coast Guard began to fire, first with 25 mm
shells, then a few hours later with ammunition twice that size.
In the year since the tsunami, the debris from Japan has washed up on shores
across the Pacific.
In January, a half dozen large buoys suspected to be from Japanese oyster
farms appeared at the top of Alaska’s panhandle and may be among the first
debris from the tsunami.
State health and environmental officials have said there’s little need to be
worried that debris landing on Alaska shores will be contaminated by
radiation.
The earthquake triggered the world’s worst nuclear crisis since the Chernobyl
accident in 1986.
State officials have been working with federal counterparts to gauge the
danger of debris including material affected by a damaged nuclear power
plant, to see if Alaska residents, seafood or wild game could be affected.
Source: agencies
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