Wrecks of the World: Hidden Risks of the Deep

[Ford Prefect]

Originally Posted by Bushwhacker

After the war the allies found some 300 000 tons of chemical warfare munitions and agents in the defeated Germany. It was decided that the most practical method to dispose of this was to sink it in the sea....
British and american method was loading old and damaged ships (including cruisers Leipzig and Berlin) with chemicals and sink them in designated areas, while the Russians useed the same ships several times and simply discharged the cargo over wide areas...
Due to unfortunate mishaps in British and American archives the number of ships sunk, as well as positions and cargo, are a little bit unclear...
Somewhere between 45 and 60 ships with about 300 000 tons of tabun, sarin, fosgen, mustardgas and so on are located on the seabed in the Baltic and North Sea.
So dont go to close to the seafloor....

Not sure about the rest but isn't tabun neutralised by the sea water? plus it will have degraded to nothing by now any way.