A massive chunk of debris from a fiberglass boat was spotted off Oregon's coast on Thursday — and it's believed to be wreckage from the 2011 Japanese tsunami.
The 25-foot-long shipwreck remnants were found west of Ona Beach, about 140 miles away from Portland, and were inspected by biologists with the state Fish and Wildlife Department and Oregon State University's Hatfield Marine Science Center.
The debris appeared to be "half to two-thirds of a larger vessel, possibly damaged and set adrift during the earthquake and tsunami that struck the east coast of Japan in 2011," the department explained.
"Several live specimens of a variety of a yellowtail jack fish found in the coastal waters of Japan" were discovered inside the low-floating object and experts said they posed little threat to the Oregon coast ecosystem.
Authorities now plan to tow the wreckage to the Port of Newport for temporary storage, according to local Q13 FOX News.
The debris will eventually be removed from the water, examined by OSU researchers, dismantled and then disposed of in a local landfill. The fish living inside will be removed and transferred to the Oregon Coast Aquarium.
The last time debris from the Tsunami made it's way across the Pacific Ocean to the US was in 2013 — when a giant floating island the size of Texas was spotted off the California coast.
It's estimated that five million tons of wreckage were sucked away into the ocean in the wake of the tidal waves.
With Post Wire Services
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