Severe drought in Europe has left one of the continent’s largest rivers, the Danube, at its lowest water level in nearly a century. Those low water levels exposed dozens of German warship – loaded with explosives – was sunk in World War II.
Based on New York Timesthese ships are part of Nazi GermanyBlack Sea Fleet. They were intentionally sunk while retreating German Navy near Serbia in 1944 to prevent them from being captured by a Soviet Union The military is closed.
According to the newspaper, there were about 10,000 unexploded shrapnel on board.
“The German fleet has left a great ecological disaster threatening us, the people of Prahovo,” says Velimir Trajilovic, an author from Prahovo who has written a book about German ships. Reuters.
CNN Reportedly some ships still had turrets, bridgeheads, broken masts and twisted hulls. Meanwhile, other places are still mostly submerged under the sand.
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Locals working in the fishing industry are at risk, and so is the country of Romania, which lies across the river.
Apparently the drought has gotten so bad in many parts of Europe, including Germany, Italy, France and Serbia, that authorities in various countries have resorted to dredging the Danube to keep it open. These exposed ships only exacerbate the problem.
They’ve narrowed the traversable sections of a section of the Danube to just 100 meters – that’s only about half of the previous 180-meter passable section.
Earlier this year, the Serbian government assessed the cost of removing sunken ships, ammunition and explosives. They found out it would cost only about 29 million euros ($30 million US dollars).
Currently, there is no word on what the fate of the wreckage will be, but it can be seen very clearly. Damn Nazis.
