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Video by Chief Petty Officer CC Clayton, Petty Officer 1st Class Sara Muir
Coast Guard overflight reconfirms position of unmanned Japanese vessel
U.S. Coast Guard District 17 PADET Kodiak
April 4, 2012 | 0:26
GULF OF ALASKA — A Coast Guard HC-130 Hercules aircrew from Air Station Kodiak locates the unmanned and unlit Japanese fishing vessel Ryou-Un Maru 170 nautical miles southwest of Sitka in the Gulf of Alaska and deploys a self locating data marker buoy to help track the vessel's drift April 4, 2012. The vessel, set adrift by the 2011 Fukushima earthquake and subsequent tsunami, entered was first noticed by the Canadian Coast Guard and entered U.S. waters April 1, 2012. Produced by Petty Officer 1st Class Sara Francis.
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