Tsunami 'ghost ship' sunk after year adrift

[KhornateMonkey]

A JAPANESE 'ghost ship' cast adrift in the country's devastating tsunami last year has finally been sunk.[Read more]

[JayL]

Couldn't they tow and salvage it instead?

[Daniel_Bradford]

Good question. It looks like its faster and cheaper to sink it then towing it into a port .. What about the gas there was in the tanks ?

[EliteTerm]

A Canadian salvage company tried to lay claims on it, and the Coast Guard let them have it but later decided to sink it because the salvage company's ship couldn't tow it.

[JDC]

tried to lay claims on it

couldn't tow it.

Defies logic. :trust:

But in all honesty, that's a huge waste of metal.

[Mikro]

Defies logic. :trust:

But in all honesty, that's a huge waste of metal.

Maybe the resources and power needed to get this ship to the docks and make the metal ready for reuse would cost more resources and power then finding and making new metal? Not saying it is good to dump metal that could be reused, but maybe it was a more logical descision.

[Mikal]

What a waste! US Coastguard sinks it instead of saving all that metal, you just broke some tree huggers heart America!  :wow: