10 Strangest Things Discovered After Tsunamis!

10 Strangest Things Discovered After Tsunamis!

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Ten Strangest Things
Discovered After A
Tsunami
Natural disasters wreak unimaginable havoc on the lives of people who experience them. But these
disasters aren't just disasters for human beings alone, they are disasters for other kinds of life too.
Tsunami's, hurricanes and other such natural disasters can change the life of a marine animal. In fact, in
many cases, these animals end up experiencing forced migration when they wash ashore because of
extreme weather.
Today, we'll be looking at the strangest and most incredible things discovered after a natural disaster
like a Tsunami.
#10 fang-toothed marine mystery
This animal certainly doesn't look like a fish or anything you've ever seen before. In fact, it would look
perfectly in place in a science fiction movie about slimy monsters, instead of on a beach.
Regardless of this, it was found on a beach after a particularly devastating hurricane. Science
communicator, Preeti Desai was the one who discovered the fish during a recent outing, and she said it
looked like a lamprey from afar. However, upon seeing its mouth, she knew that it couldn't possibly be a
lamprey. It had to be something else, something different, something strange.
And indeed it was. The animal was an eel in the family Opichthidae, a group also known as snake-eels.
Most scientists came to the conclusion that the animal was an Alpatophis chauliodus, the fangtooth
snake-eel or "tusky" eel. When one considers how horrifying this animal looks, it's no surprise to learn
that the name for it roughly translates into terrible serpent.
It's difficult to imagine a serpent more terrible than this. The reason why this eel is usually not found
washed ashore is that they live about 90 meters underwater. So why did this one wash up exactly?
The answer is simple enough. Hurricane Harvey wreaked havoc in that area of Texas and led to the
forced migration, as it were, of so many animals.

#9 The Floating Dock
In 2011, a tsunami wrecked Japan. Millions of dollars in property was lost, and several people died.
However, the impact of the Tsunami was not to be felt in the United States until several months later.
On June 5, a floating dock, a mass of concrete that was larger than we could ever imagine, washed
ashore on the coast of Oregon. The dock brought with it so many species of marine life from Japan that
it was impossible to catalogue them all. Some of these animals include barnacles, clams, muscles and so
many other tiny creatures that we may not be able to recognize.
The dock weighed 188 tons, was 7-feet-tall and stretched 19-feet wide by 66-feet long. It also brought
with it some 118 species of foreign marine life that scientists quickly killed. It was confirmed to be one of
four cut loose from the Japanese city of Misawa during the March 2011 Tsunami that devastated the
area.
Before the dock arrived, most scientists expected that some things would wash ashore from the Pacific,
but no one expected an actual dock this size.
However, the story has a silver lining. The size of the dock increased the level of awareness of marine
debris and has in a roundabout way helped the efforts of coastal conservative groups.
#8 Rowing Boat
This rowing boat, or skiff, was found on the 7th of April 2013 on the shores of Crescent City, California.
The boat was called Kamome and was owned by a high school in Rikuzentakata. Sadly, the high school
had been completely destroyed by the tsunami that hit the town it was in about two years earlier.
Pupils of Del Norte High School helped to remove the barnacles on it and worked with Japanese officials
to send the rowing boat back to Japan. By this time, the school in Rikuzentakata had been rebuilt, and
the two schools started to arrange visits and later became sister schools.
This goes to show that even the most unlikely items can bring two groups of people together in the
unlikeliest of ways.
#7 The Motorcycle
Can you imagine a motorcycle suddenly washing ashore? Well, you should be able to. A motorcycle is
just like any other thing that could wash ashore.
That's why you shouldn't be surprised to learn that a Harley-Davidson motorcycle once washed ashore
Graham Island in British Columbia in Canada. The motorcycle had washed up in the container that its
owner had used to store it.
So, technically it was a container that washed ashore. It just happened to have a Harley-Davidson right
in it. The container anduring the disaster.

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