It has been drifting across the Pacific for months, posing a silent danger to shipping and fishing. But on Thursday the ghost ship cast adrift by last year’s Japanese tsunami has been sunk by the U.S. coast guard.
The Ryou-Un Maru was swept out to sea last year, and was finally spotted off Haida Gwaii last month.
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Since then, it drifted north towards Alaska.
A Lower Mainland company planned to salvage the ship, but decided the idea wasn’t safe.
The Coast Guard says the ghost ship drifted into a busy shipping lane in the Gulf of Alaska, and so had to be destroyed.
Thursday afternoon, they opened fire on the Ryou-Un Maru, and at 6:15 p.m. it slipped beneath the waves to the bottom of the pacific.
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