THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
In this Dec. 21 file photo provided by the Washington Dept. of Fish & Wildlife, scientists and others inspect a dock that floated up on a remote stretch of wilderness beach in northwestern Washington.(AP Photo/Washington Dept. of Fish & Wildlife)
A scientist who examined the dock that recently washed ashore on Washington's Olympic Peninsula says it looks just like another one that came ashore on a Pacific Northwest beach last summer, suggesting it also is a piece of tsunami debris from Japan.