Comment: Read the article! There is nothing... only hype!

Read the article more carefully, then you will sleep better:) Here are some extracts:

Ghost ship' off Canada heralds arrival of tsunami debris
...empty Japanese fishing boat drifting off the coast of western Canada could be the first wave of 1.5 million tons of debris heading toward North America

...wreckage from flattened Japanese coastal towns - including refrigerators, washing machines, televisions, roofs and fishing nets - is heading inexorably east across the Pacific and could arrive sooner than expected

...early indication is that things sitting higher up on the water could potentially move across the Pacific Ocean quicker than we had originally thought," said Nancy Wallace, director of NOAA's Marine Debris Program, which had forecast the appearance of tsunami debris on North American shores only in 2013

..."Those higher-wind, quicker moving items may actually be onshore much sooner - pretty much now."

...The ship has been declared a hazard to shipping, but Canada has not said what - if anything - it will do with it.

...The so-called ghost ship is the first major piece of evidence(!?) that Japanese tsunami debris is heading to the United States.

..."It does confirm that debris generated by the tsunami will make landfall on the west coast of North America," said Nicholas Mallos, a conservation biologist and marine debris specialist at the independent Ocean Conservancy, which monitors the problem of Ocean trash.

...(and most definitively this line:) "However, what the quantity of that debris is, what it looks like, all of those questions are still largely unanswered."

...NOAA, ..., initially expected to find debris hitting the northern Hawaiian islands this winter and moving slowly onto Alaska, Canada and the U.S. West Coast next year. But those forecasts... are proving inaccurate.

...The agency is finding(?!) that debris is moving north of Hawaii's northernmost points, and making its way to the continent ahead of schedule, said Wallace. It is now tweaking its forecast to account for new material, such as analysis of recent oil spills and how wind will affect some objects more than others.

...we are trying to get that methodology of the new models validated by peer review (?!?)

...the extent and composition of the debris is unclear(?!). For about a month after the tsunami, a 'debris field' was visible by satellite. But it has since been dispersed, making it impossible to track except from vessels.

...It is impossible to say how much of that will break up and sink en route and how much will end up on American beaches.

... there is large variability in terms of how dispersed the debris is. It's certainly not a solid floating mass of debris."

...Mallos is set to embark on a one-month voyage from Tokyo to the Hawaiian island of Maui on June 1 to follow the projected path of the debris and finds out more about it. (good luck)

...One of the difficulties is how to distinguish tsunami debris from regular ocean trash, which is a growing issue in its own right.

...Unfortunately debris is a problem every single day," said Wallace (Really now?) We're doing baseline monitoring of debris ... working closely with locals, ... so that if there's an upswing in debris we might be able to trace it back to the tsunami."

...The NOAA advises people to clear up small pieces of trash - such as plastic bottles - but to report heavy or potentially dangerous items to local authorities.

... (and a classic) What we are saying is, if you see anything let us know. And also if you don't see anything, let us know that too ..." said Wallace.

... (and not to be outdone...) "Will there be a flotilla of washing machines across the Pacific Ocean? No. Could there be an appliance here and there? Yes, it's a possibility." (Reporting By Bill Rigby; editing by Mohammad Zargham)
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Time to focus on the nomination!