Filmmakers tracking tsunami debris
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March 9, 2013, Saturday
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A ball. A boat. A little girl's sandal. Canada-based filmmakers are working to find - and tell - the stories behind some of the items that have washed up on North American shores following the deadly 2011 tsunami in Japan.
Monday marks the two-year anniversary of the disaster, which devastated a long stretch of Japan's coast and killed thousands of people.
The Japanese government estimated that 1.5 million tons of debris was floating in the ocean in the immediate aftermath of the tsunami, but it's not clear how much is still floating.
"Lost and Found" aims to reunite items picked up by beachcombers who want to return them to their rightful owners, co-director John Choi said.
A trailer for the film, which is still being produced, features two men affected by the items they've found. John Anderson found a volleyball on a beach in Washington state, and Marcus Eriksen, head of an expedition that sailed from Japan to Hawaii to look for tsunami debris last year, found part of a boat. Neither of the items has been linked to their original owners yet.
"It was just like, 'Whoa, oh man!' There's one of them balls with all the writing on it," Anderson says in the clip. "I'm more interested in the story behind it. You know, I would sure like to know what happened to these people. It would be nice to know that they survived or this was at home while they were away - just this got washed away."
Eriksen said that when his team first saw the boat, there was initial excitement. "But when we approached this, it quickly went from fascination and excitement to, like, the sobering reality that this was someone's property."
Monday marks the two-year anniversary of the disaster, which devastated a long stretch of Japan's coast and killed thousands of people.
The Japanese government estimated that 1.5 million tons of debris was floating in the ocean in the immediate aftermath of the tsunami, but it's not clear how much is still floating.
"Lost and Found" aims to reunite items picked up by beachcombers who want to return them to their rightful owners, co-director John Choi said.
A trailer for the film, which is still being produced, features two men affected by the items they've found. John Anderson found a volleyball on a beach in Washington state, and Marcus Eriksen, head of an expedition that sailed from Japan to Hawaii to look for tsunami debris last year, found part of a boat. Neither of the items has been linked to their original owners yet.
"It was just like, 'Whoa, oh man!' There's one of them balls with all the writing on it," Anderson says in the clip. "I'm more interested in the story behind it. You know, I would sure like to know what happened to these people. It would be nice to know that they survived or this was at home while they were away - just this got washed away."
Eriksen said that when his team first saw the boat, there was initial excitement. "But when we approached this, it quickly went from fascination and excitement to, like, the sobering reality that this was someone's property."
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