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Ghost ship
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A ghost ship, also known as a phantom ship, is a ship with no living crew aboard; it may be a ghostly vessel in folklore or fiction, such as the Flying Dutchman, or a real derelict found adrift with its crew missing or dead, like the Mary Celeste. The term is sometimes used for ships that have been decommissioned but not yet scrapped, such as the Clemenceau.
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More than a year after a tsunami devastated Japan, killing thousands and washing millions of tons of debris into the Pacific Ocean, neither the US government nor West Coast states have a clear plan for how to clean up large and potentially toxic f...