SEATTLE (AP) — A dock that apparently was ripped away from Japanese waters by a tsunami and drifted for more than a year and a half has washed ashore on one of the most remote beaches on the U.S. West Coast.

It was spotted Tuesday by the Coast Guard on Washington’s rugged Olympic Peninsula.

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