Offshore windmill blade length of football field breaks off into ocean off the coast of Nantucket 

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One part of a windmill blade, nearly 300 feet long, broke off and fell into the ocean, with debris washed up ashore along Nantucket Island.

The Coast Guard spotted the debris on July 13 and notified mariners of the 300-foot debris floating in the ocean on July 18.

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