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Cosco Yokohama Flyswatter Spill: Dozens Of Swatters Wash Up On Alaska Beaches

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KODIAK, Alaska (AP) — Dozens of fly swatters bearing logos of collegiate and professional sports teams have been washing up on the beaches of an Alaska island.

The fly swatters found on Kodiak were believed to be debris from last year's Japanese earthquake and tsunami. But the Kodiak Daily Mirror reports that they are from a shipping container that went overboard almost four months ago.

Team Sports America received word that the container ship carrying its products from China lost several shipping containers after a rogue wave hit the vessel in a storm. A cable on the ship broke and a whole row of containers got loose in the Pacific Ocean.

It is likely the containers were on the Cosco Yokohama, a container vessel traveling from Asia to Prince Rupert, British Columbia.

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Information from: Kodiak Daily Mirror, http://www.kodiakdailymirror.com

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The last sane American
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09:56 AM on 05/17/2012
Oh, the inhumanity of this tragedy.

But not if you are a fly!
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watashi ha tororu ga oroka da to omoi masu。
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05:52 PM on 05/16/2012
This happens more often than you might think. When I worked on Afognak Island in the '80's, a container of Korean TV's had washed overboard, and you could be in the middle of nowhere and come across a TV sitting on some driftwood. We salvaged tons of 2X8's after those were lost overboard from some boat. And one time it was tennis balls....

I loved beachcombing up there! I even found a real message in a bottle once from a Japanese sailor.
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07:46 AM on 05/16/2012
Free College / Pro Sports Merch....
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07:07 PM on 05/15/2012
Just in time for gnat and black fly season.
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undsoweiter
but I know where to look it up
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06:47 PM on 05/15/2012
Just in time for the Alaska black-fly and mosquito season. Not that there are enough flyswatters on earth to do anything about it..
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Sunwyn Ravenwood
Farewell
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12:13 AM on 05/16/2012
Amen to that.
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