Apr
07
This picture shows the view as a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter flies over the Japanese tsunami “ghost ship” Ryou-Un Maru in the Gulf Of Alaska on April 4, 2012. The ship was pulled out to sea during the Japanese tsunami of 2011.
This picture shows members of the Coast Guard crew dropping a “Self Locating Data Marker Buoy” (they call it an SLDMB, of course!) right… Read more
Apr
06
It looks like the scene from a Hollywood blockbuster.
A lone ship, abandoned and adrift on an ocean.
It’s fired on–then on fire–until it sinks below the surface and never comes up again.
This time, the whole thing was real. I first wrote about this Japanese Tsunami Ghost Ship last week. But finally in U.S. waters over… Read more
Bruce Sussman has been forecasting Northwest weather since 1994. He is the Chief Meteorologist at Koin Local 6 News in Portland, Oregon and a member of the American Meteorological Society. Bruce graduated from University of Missouri and completed advanced Meteorology studies at Mississippi State ....
