How Hitler's U-Boats Are Still Attacking Us

mookiemookie · 05-21-13, 12:45 PM

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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has some fresh news from World War II: 13 Merchant Marine ships sunk by the German navy in the Battle of the Atlantic threaten to release oil from their watery graves.

http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marb...oil-leak-uboat

Makes you wonder what other hazardous cargoes are still sitting on the bottom, with as many ships that were sunk in WW2.

Gerald · 05-21-13, 12:52 PM

Well I know that both cargo and mines and other (mostly mines) and emissions of various kinds), like mustard gas in rusty containers in Baltic northern Atlantic and Med.After both World Wars.

August · 05-21-13, 01:44 PM

There's a lot more of it littering European and Pacific coastlines at similar levels of deterioration.

desertstriker · 05-21-13, 01:57 PM

doesnt really surprise me . I think i read a report once where they sometimes have to go down and look at wrecks in special wet/dry suits because of toxic stuff in many cases they try to use ROVs that then have to go through major cleaning

kranz · 05-21-13, 02:02 PM

13 merchants you say?

between 40,000 and 60,000 tonnes of chemicals (V-gases, sarin, tabun, soman etc) at the bottom of the Baltic Sea. These are remains after WWII and Soviet experiments in the 1950's.

Jimbuna · 05-21-13, 02:07 PM

The cargo of mercury carried by U-864 will probably be amongst the most dangerous I should imagine.

05-21-13, 12:52 PM	#2
Gerald SUBSIM Newsman Join Date: May 2008 Location: Close to sea Posts: 24,254 Downloads: 553 Uploads: 0	Well I know that both cargo and mines and other (mostly mines) and emissions of various kinds), like mustard gas in rusty containers in Baltic northern Atlantic and Med.After both World Wars. __________________ Nothing in life is to be feard,it is only to be understood. Marie Curie

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August Wayfaring Stranger Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Massachusetts Posts: 23,202 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	There's a lot more of it littering European and Pacific coastlines at similar levels of deterioration. __________________ Flanked by life and the funeral pyre. Putting on a show for you to see.

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Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,561 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	The cargo of mercury carried by U-864 will probably be amongst the most dangerous I should imagine. __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

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desertstriker Eternal Patrol Join Date: May 2012 Location: mod soup bar and grill Posts: 1,756 Downloads: 998 Uploads: 0	doesnt really surprise me . I think i read a report once where they sometimes have to go down and look at wrecks in special wet/dry suits because of toxic stuff in many cases they try to use ROVs that then have to go through major cleaning

05-21-13, 02:02 PM	#5
kranz The Old Man Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Poland Posts: 1,430 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	13 merchants you say? between 40,000 and 60,000 tonnes of chemicals (V-gases, sarin, tabun, soman etc) at the bottom of the Baltic Sea. These are remains after WWII and Soviet experiments in the 1950's.