15 Strangest Things Discovered After Tsunamis!

it's hard to believe that any good could come from an earthquake triggered tsunami responsible for significant loss of life but after the dust had settled and people began to rebuild their lives many objects considered long since missing began turning up on several beaches some many thousands of miles from home from the harley-davidson swept into the Canadian Coast to the tragic loss of a teenage rock band here are 15 strangest things discovered after tsunamis before we begin make sure to hit that like button subscribe to our Channel and click the notification bell for more amazing videos every day that being said let's begin number 15 a harley-davidson imagine losing your prized possession to the depths of the ocean floor well this was the reality for a harley-davidson owner whose motorcycle was being transported in a storage container across the sea at the very same time the massive earthquake triggered tsunami hit Miyagi prefecture and other parts of Japan's northeastern coast on March 11th 2011 the bikes owner Ikuo Yokoyama survived the tsunami himself however he lost several members of his family and all of his possessions believing his motorcycle to be lost at sea he barely gave it another thought instead concentrating on rebuilding his life miraculously just over a year later in April 2012 Canadian beach Comber Peter mark made a surprising discovery a large storage container washed up on the coast of isolated graham Island in British Columbia having succumbed to the sea thirteen months prior following the tsunami the insulated container was holding a broken and rusted 2004 harley-davidson Night Train motorcycle with Japanese license plates the VIN number was still visible and the bikes owner Ikuo Yokoyama was notified the harley-davidson had survived a 4,000 plus mile journey across the Pacific and was finally home albeit slightly worse for wear beyond repair harley-davidson offered to replace the bike however after the year his fellow three men had endured ikuyo didn't feel right accepting the generous gift instead gifting his ruined bike to a museum it stands today in remembrance of the 2011 tragedy that claimed over 15,000 lives and changed the lives of those who survived it forever now it's time for the start topic if you've ever watched the movie ghost ship or seen episodes of spongebob where we are introduced to the Flying Dutchman and is eerily similar transportation then this image will bring the memories flooding back unlike these two fictional examples however an actual giant ghost ship is said to have been swept into Shore following a tsunami although the image is simply a depiction of the events that unfolded the story goes that a young girl was playing on the beach one day when a giant ship came into view covered in barnacles and rust the heavily damaged ship resembled one that had disappeared many years before under mysterious circumstances never to be seen again it's certainly a possibility that a tsunami may have dredged the ship up from the seafloor but when tales of the ship's appearance were told and the beach inspected the skeletal remains were nowhere to be found was the little girl telling the truth or her eyes playing tricks on her or did she just have a wild imagination comment down below with the hashtag star topic and we might pin the best comment in relation to this picture with that said let's keep things moving number 14 a rock band presenting a stark reminder of the enormity of the tsunami that hit Indonesia soon two straight just days before Christmas 2018 video footage shows the moment a wall of water hit revelers enjoying a private beachside concert the footage shows just how quickly a celebratory scene could turn into a nightmare with the surging waves catapulting members of the rock band 17 much of their equipment and the gathered crowd into the water just two songs into their set when tragedy struck the Jakarta based rock band lost four members of their band that night with just their lead vocalist surviving the tragedy the death toll rose steadily over the days following reaching 420 six and over 14,000 people were injured in the disaster said to have been caused by the eruption and partial collapse of the anak Krakatau volcano in the soon distrait the tsunami struck several coastal regions of Banton and Java and Lampang in Sumatra Indonesia number 13 fishing boat according to the Japanese government the tsunami that hit their northern East Coast in March 2011 saw approximately 20 million tons of material washed out to sea one piece of debris which was especially visible and a little too large to salvage was the cruellest fishing trawler found on the 23rd of March 2012 spotted off the coast of the Canadian province of British Columbia the ghost ship appeared as a small white blip slowly drifting in a maritime transport corridor about 900 kilometers from its home poor marine conservationist Marcus Eriksen who led a 2012 expedition to survey the large volume of debris that had been cast into the ocean said the ship located in the center of the Pacific Ocean was initially mistaken for a whale on closer inspection the large abandoned boat was a Japanese trawler a salvage team was sent to inspect the boat and it was found to be structurally sound posing no immediate danger the Japan Coast Guard contacted the owner who said the vessel was moored at Hatchin o he in the AO Mori Prefecture when the tsunami hit the 50 meter trawler was considered a navigation obstruction so was sunk approximately 314 kilometers from Sitka Alaska by naval cannon fire number 12 a huge dog another significant find and perhaps an indication of just how powerful the waves of the Japanese tsunami were was the recovery of a concrete dock one of four said to possibly be floating somewhere in the Pacific Ocean the dock previously situated in Misawa in northern Japan broke free from its moorings when the tsunami hit on March 11th 2011 washing it out to sea at 66 feet long 19 feet wide and 7 feet tall the large floating pier was swept onto a beach north of Newport Oregon southwest of Portland in June 2012 information on a plaque attached to the dock enabled Japanese official to determine where it originated from although covered in reinforced concrete and an extremely large structure the dock was filled with styrofoam allowing it to float across an entire ocean with relative ease number 11 300 species of sea creatures labeled unprecedented ly powerful the earthquake that struck the Tohoku region of Japan on March 11 2011 brought with it a 40 meter high tsunami together they destroyed hundreds of thousands of buildings wrecked the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant and shifted the entire planet a few inches on its axis these catastrophic consequences were immediately obvious however there were subtler ones that occurred over the years following with 20 tons of debris making its way into the ocean following the tsunami including plastics and metals many new species have used these as transport across oceans in fact since the tsunami nearly 300 species of sea creature have made their way to the shores of Washington Oregon California and Hawaii some 4,300 miles away from their previous home these sea creatures have adapted for life on the coast surviving for years at sea effectively hitchhiking across the ocean upon or inside any suitable debris they can find marine biologists documenting the castaways mostly shellfish and crustaceans have noted that year after year they continue to wash up along the coast of the Pacific Northwest in California most clinging to plastic debris surprisingly this phenomenon isn't new with animals rafting across seas for millions of years most of the animal population of Madagascar probably rafted from mainland Africa and that was 60 million years ago so why not today the difference being that the plastic waste is allowing these creatures to travel further and longer than was ever thought possible number 10 civil war-era cannon balls the first category 5 Atlantic hurricane since Felix in 2007 hurricane Matthew caused catastrophic damage and a humanitarian crisis in Haiti the deadliest Atlantic hurricane since Hurricane Stan in 2005 her caine matthew resulted in 546 deaths and widespread devastation and destruction in the southeastern united states totaling approximately 2.8 million dollars in damages the hurricane formed on september 28th 2016 and dissipated on october 10th 2016 effectively holding the area ransom for almost two weeks whilst on its trail of death and destruction hurricane Matthew was also responsible for unearthing a surprising discovery a local resident walking along a section of a South Carolina Beach discovered what appeared to be cannonballs lying innocently on the sand local authorities were notified and the cannonballs were transported to the Navy base nearby and subsequently destroyed thought to be approximately 150 years old the explosives were found to contain unstable gunpowder so any hope of displaying them had to be abandoned number 9 vast quantities of drugs no doubt the perfect dumping ground for the drug trafficker looking to avoid prosecution the sea can provide the perfect burial site whether accidental or on purpose with bags dropped into the murky depths never to be seen again well that's the expectation but not necessarily the reality in fact bags laden with drugs and drug paraphernalia are commonplace with many known to have washed up on beaches over the years so in May 2015 when a 66 pound bundle of cocaine worth 3.5 million u.s. dollars was found on a local beach in Texas police barely broke a sweat there was however something a little unusual with this package as it was the sixth discovered on that exact beach that week although the reason for this sudden influx wasn't confirmed police believed it could have had something to do with heavy storms that had restricted access to the Houston Ship Channel heightened security through the channel may have led traffickers to throw their illegal yet lucrative haul overboard number 8 the unidentifiable or fish considered a bad omen the oarfish is a strange-looking creature that inhabits the world's oceans the sea creature is said to have a snake-like body and grow up to 15 feet long however some every state whopping 50 feet in length typically a rare find one was found by swimmers on the coast of Spain in Villa Rico's its severe state of decomposition made it difficult to accurately identify however it was said to be an oarfish that a fishing vessel had pulled aboard a growing number of the fish have also been making their way into the fishermen's nets in Japan in recent times raising the superstitions of the locals normally a deep sea dwelling species living between 200 and 1000 metres below the surface rumor has it that the frequency of or fish landing in Nets is linked to an impending disaster such as an earthquake or tsunami giving this myth further traction was the dozen oarfish washed up on a beach in the year prior to the 2011 Fukushima earthquake and tsunami according to the region's fisheries Research Institute the increased sightings may be linked to the surface temperature in Toyama recently it's been several degrees higher than average and at deeper depths the water appears cooler than normal number seven an ancient town surely from an archaeological perspective the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and resulting tsunami was good it seems an odd thing to admit considering the devastating toll the Boxing Day tsunami took on Indonesia but researchers quietly acknowledged it revealed more than expected with its epicenter located off the west coast of northern Sumatra Indonesia the earthquake registering magnitude 9.1 29.3 MW was the third largest ever recorded it was caused by a rupture a long the fault line between the Burma and the Indian plates waves of up to 100 feet high were created by the underwater seismic activity with communities all along the surrounding coasts of the Indian Ocean affected it's estimated the resulting tsunamis killed two hundred twenty seven thousand eight hundred ninety eight people in 14 countries and is said to be the deadliest natural disaster in history it is also said to have revealed something quite unique to fishermen standing along the shoreline in Mahabalipuram India spread across nearly a mile the fishermen stared at the reality of generations of legends with the retreating waves briefly exposing the remains of ancient temples hundreds of refrigerator-sized blocks difficult to prove considering the sea swallowed the site up again as quickly as it was revealed the fishermen insisted that they had seen the destroyed walls of the ancient ruins covered in coral with a broken-down temple in the center a few hundred yards away however something else came to the surface a small cluster of long buried boulders with carvings of animals gods and servant girls engraved in them this find brought tourists back to Mahabalipuram keen to investigate what the tsunami had dug up to spend time looking at the carvings and splashed their feet in the ocean number six 28,000 rubber ducks imagine crossing the Pacific Ocean and coming across a trail of yellow rubber ducks you'd have to rub your eyes and take a second glance maybe even a third but back in 1992 if you had been sea bound your eyes may not have been deceiving you for 28,000 rubber ducks and assorted bath toys are said to have walked the plank during a particularly ferocious storm the popular bathtub toy was joined by plastic green frogs and blue turtles on its adventures throughout the ocean with many still being discovered twenty-five years later washing ashore on beaches halfway around the world clearly these little guys were made to last in the water with some found to have traveled 17,000 miles and spent time in the Arctic ice pack before making land these plastic toys have been found in many corners of the globe including Hawaii Alaska South America the Pacific Northwest Scotland and Newfoundland in the Atlantic nicknamed the friendly floatees the plastic toys journeys have been tracked by devoted followers over the years with a website created for photos of sightings to be uploaded to the websites administrator is a retired oceanographer and floaty enthusiast and says people have sent him pictures of the Ducks they find on beaches all over the world number five an engineer and his crew in October 2018 the 500 ton cargo vessel km Sabich nusantara 39 crashed into a dockside settlement after being dragged out to sea by a tsunami and sent hurtling back into Shore moment later the ship's engineer Charles Marlin said the ship was docked in juanny east of the city of Paulo when he had felt it shaking and watched as everything in the bunk room began to fall this was followed by the unsettling realization that this vessel was being sucked out to sea a telltale sign of an imminent tsunami unaware that a major earthquake had just struck the Indonesian island of Sulawesi Marlin wasn't prepared for what happened next he knew he and his fellow crewmen were in trouble when the ship was picked up by the tsunami rushing in from the sea and slammed onto land crashing into the dockside settlement gripped by fear they scrambled into their lifejackets as a 5 meter wave came crashing down on top of them the next minute they were sitting on land balanced precariously with the ship's propeller and rudder exposed miraculously no one either on the boat or on land was hurt number 4 love letters from World War 2 the strongest hurricane of the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season superstorm sandy may have destroyed towns and homes and taken lives but the raging storm also turned up something that proves love truly does conquer all just a day after Hurricane sandy ravaged the East Coast Kathleen Mullen found a precious pink ribbon wrapped package near the Jersey Shore inside was a stack of 57 letters sodden by the storm but still intact Mullen took them home dried them by the fire and promised to reunite them with their rightful owner the letters written between lovers Dorothy Fallon and Lynn Farnum between 1942 and 1945 spoke of Lynn's time in the military Mullen posted about the letters on Facebook and Craigslist and inquired with findagrave.com where she found Lynn Farnum had died in 1992 and was buried in New Jersey she was able to connect with Lynn's nice lived in Virginia she was thrilled to hear of the find calling it a genealogical gold mine and was keen to reunite them with her auntie Dorothy who was still alive and in a nursing home in New Jersey Dorothy had married Lynn after he served in World War - and was at Pearl Harbor she is still alive in a nursing home in New Jersey number three 80,000 Nike shoes just like our friends the rubber ducks that were lost to sea in 1992 a massive number of Nike sneakers also found themselves floating in the freezing waters of the Pacific Ocean following a hurricane in May 1990 80,000 pairs of the popular sports shoe were said to have been lost at sea when the container ship P&O net allowed Auckland heading from South Korea encountered the hurricane partway through their journey it caused heavy rolling with winds so strong they threw a dozen 40-foot long containers overboard - were filled with the Nike footwear destined for the United States oceanographer Curtis Ibis Myer used the remaining floaters to track ocean currents and expect some of the shoes to arrive on Alaskan beaches in 2012 and Washington beaches in 2020 he says if they are drifting at an average rate of seven miles per day they may have already floated around the world twice the chances of securing a pair however are slim with Nike unable to confirm if their laces were tied together number two ice balls there's nothing quite like a snowball fight in the middle of winter that is unless you find yourself on a beach in Finland in 2019 when a hailstorm created what can only be described as a rare and surreal natural phenomenon not for the faint-hearted these ice balls weren't the ideal ammunition for a snowball fight in fact it would be like being hit with a cricket ball for viewing only the ice balls were found by amateur photographer Risto Mattila while it was out for a stroll along margin Immie beach on Finland's Hailu o2 Island the frozen spheres littered a stretch of almost 30 metres of sand and ranged in size from golf ball to football formed from pieces of a larger ice sheet the balls are jostled around in the sea making them round and then deposited onto the beach either by wind or the tide Mattila is said to have felt quite lucky to have witnessed such a thing having never seen anything quite like it during his 25 years of living in the area his photos will ensure his memories are preserved for many years to come number one stranded buoy Hurricane Irma caused widespread destruction and catastrophic damage when it struck Hilton Head in September 2017 it also threw a 13,000 pound u.s. Coast Guard buoy onto the shore between South forest and Coligny beaches considered an unlikely visitor the large red buoy identified as buoy eight was deposited onto the shore between south forest and Coligny beaches during tropical storm Irma the buoy had been carried by strong waves about eight nautical miles to the beach from its original destination found by surprised walkers on the beach the buoy had been left lying on its side and made for an intriguing sight on the shoreline Hilton Head resident Jacqueline Hayworth found the buoy whilst out surveying the damage caused by Irma's wrath and noticed a light blinking in the distance the blinking turned out to be an eight-foot-wide 21 foot long buoy with the serial number eight five zero seven zero two um imprinted on it the lost buoy had come from the mouth of the Port Royal sound and needed to be returned as soon as possible as a traffic signal for water vessels the missing buoy plays an important role in the ocean plus it's worth twenty four thousand dollars and next to useless in non dryland tsunamis and hurricanes claim lives destroy buildings and change landscapes forever they can also reveal some interesting items of historical significance considered long since destroyed they can also hold onto precious treasures and bring them back up when least expected surprised amazed we were also check out our other cool stuff showing up on screen right now see you next time you

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Published: Wed Feb 05 2020