On the Ripples of Tragedy…
Almost two years ago I wrote in this blog about a small boat that had washed ashore in Del Norte County. There is nothing unusual about that up here on the North Coast, but there was something special about this small boat called a “panga.” Here’s what I wrote about it back in April of 2013:
“It was covered in barnacles and other debris, and had clearly been lost at sea for a long time – just over two years to be exact. We know that because this Panga has now been positively identified as coming from the Takata High School marine sciences program in Rikuzentakata Japan—it was washed out to sea in the March 2011 tsunami that devastated much of coastal Japan and killed several thousand people in Rikuzentakata.