A large blue container was found floating in the ocean near Rabbit Island. It had Japanese writing on it and was covered with barnacles and crabs not usually found in Hawaii, suggesting the bin had floated a long way.

Hawaii News Now reports:

Workers at Makai Ocean Engineering spotted the big bin floating between the Makai Research Pier and Rabbit Island.

“Because of it’s size, we were very intrigued,” explained Michael Nedbal of Makai Ocean Engineering.

A team from the Hawaii Undersea Research Lab brought the bin with a “Y.K Suisan Co., Ltd.” label to shore.

“We actually had one of our guys went on Google earth to locate the actual site of the plant, and it’s in the tsunami zone,” said Nedbal. “We had another person do a little bit of research, and they found that the company actually was wiped out by the tsunami and they just restarted business in 2011.”