VIDEO | Is tsunami debris from Japan reaching B.C.?

Some residents ofthewestcoast of Vanouver islandbelieve they are starting to see debris from the devastating Japanese tsunami in March.

Plastic water bottles with Japanese labels and pieces of wood have come ashore near Tofino, possibly precursors of the massive amount of debris predicted to beshifted by ocean currents and hit the same shores in 2014.

There's no scientific proof that the flotsam found so far is related tothe March 11 disaster in northern Japan,which killed about 26,000 people, flattened small cities, andunleashed radioactivityfrom ruined nuclear power plants.

Butassociated directly with the tsunami or not,the debris is a warning of what's to come, as the CBC's Alan Waterman reports.