2012年4月6日 星期五

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Fiery end for tsunami 'ghost ship'
Apr 6th 2012, 06:07

A U.S. Coast Guard cutter in the Gulf of Alaska unleashed cannon fire on the abandoned Japanese shrimping vessel on Thursday, ending a journey that began when last year's tsunami dislodged it and set it adrift across the Pacific Ocean. It sank about 180 miles west of the southeast Alaska coast.

Gallery View:Fiery end for tsunami 'ghost ship'

  1. The Ryou-Un Maru was a significant navigation hazard, officials said
  2. The deserted trawler drifted thousands of miles across the Pacific following the March 2011 tsunami
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  4. Izquierdo and Kelly observe the Japanese fishing vessel Ryou-un Maru from the ramp of HC-130 Hercules airplane airborne over the Gulf of Alaska
  5. In a photo provided by the U.S. Coast Guard the unmanned Japanese fishing vessel Ryou-un Maru dirfts northwest in the Gulf of Alaska approximately 164 miles southwest of Baranof Island Wednesday April
  6. The unmanned Japanese fishing vessel, Ryou-un Maru, drifts northwest approximately 164 miles southwest of Baranof Island
  7. FILE - This file photo taken March 13, 2011, and provided by the U.S. Navy, shows a Japanese home adrift in the Pacific Ocean, days after a massive earthquake and the ensuing tsunami hit Japan
  8. FILE - This file photo taken Tuesday Feb. 21, 2012 shows clothing lying in heaps at the site of a neighborhood destroyed by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, in Rikuzentakata, Japan. Scientists believ
  9. In this July 24, 2011 photo, debris lies in heaps after the tsunami swept inland across the contaminated town of Namie, Japan, and covers an area where a residential neighborhood once stood. (AP Photo
  10. Debris is seen scattered near the Unit 6 reactor building of stricken Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant of Tokyo Electric Power Co., in Okuma town, Fukushima prefecture, northeastern Japan Tuesda
  11. In this photo provided on Friday Feb. 10, 2012 by World Press Photo, the 1st prize People in the News Stories category of the 2012 World Press Photo Contest by Yasuyoshi Chiba, Japan, Agence France-Pr
  12. In this combination of three photos taken over a six-month period shows aftermath of the March 11, 2011 tsunami and its cleanup progress in Wakabayashi-ward in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, in northeaste
  13. A ship brought ashore by the March 2011 magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami is seen among debris in Kesennuma, north Japan
  14. Emergency workers search through debris after the magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami near the seaside in Rikuzentakata, Iwate prefecture

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