Situated between Great Britain, Germany, Belgium, Denmark, Norway and the Netherlands, the North Sea contains an assortment of artifacts from the two world wars.
And according to a paper published in Frontiers in Marine Science, one of these artifacts — a sunken ship from World War II — still pours pollutants into the floor of the sea almost a century after it sunk.
Specialists say that the floor of the shallow North Sea is strewn with thousands of ship and aircraft wrecks and assorted artifacts from World War I and II. These wartime wrecks, they say, can contain toxic chemicals and cargo, including millions of tons of ammunition and explosives, that taint the marine environment and ecosystem. That said, scientists still struggle to understand the true extent of the effect that these wrecks could cause.
"The potential environmental impact of these wrecks is often overlooked," says Josefien Van Landuyt, a ...
