Fishing boat washes ashore in Okinawa 8 years after being swept away in 2011 Tohoku tsunami

Fishing boat washes ashore in Okinawa 8 years after being swept away in 2011 Tohoku tsunami

The fishing boat that finally washed ashore after being swept away from Kamaishi, Iwate by the tsunami following the 2011 East Japan earthquake, on August 31 on the shores of Kin, Kin (photograph provided by the Nakagusuku Regional Coast Guard Headquarters)


September 3, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo

On August 31, the fishing boat Seisho-maru (0.8 tons), which was lost after being swept away in the tsunami following the 2011 East Japan earthquake, was discovered washed ashore in Kin, Kin, Okinawa by an employee of the Nakagusuku Regional Coast Guard Headquarters while on patrol.

The boat, which is 6.5 meters long, had lost its engine and other power units, and drifted ashore roughly 1,900 kilometers from home on the beach of Kin after being lost at sea for over eight years since the disaster.

According to the Nakagusuku Regional Coast Guard, the boat’s owner, Kiyofumi Sasaki, 74, of Kamaishi, Iwate choked up when he heard that his fishing boat had been discovered, saying, “I never thought after all this time that it would turn up in Okinawa.

” At the time of the disaster, Sasaki evacuated to high ground and his life was spared, but his and his friends’ boats and nearly all moored boats were swept away in the tsunami.

The name inscribed on the fishing boat that washed ashore could not be made out, but its owner was revealed by contacting the Toni Fishery Cooperative in Kamaishi on the basis of the boat’s registration number.

(English translation by T&CT and Sandi Aritza)

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