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Using a high-tech underwater camera, researchers identified anti-submarine explosives, smoke devices and boxes of munitions on the ocean floor.

From Environment News Service / Jan. 7, 2024 Tons of munitions, DDT and petrochemicals were dumped for decades in deep ocean basins off the coast of Los Angeles, scientists from three California universities are discovering. This dumping is known to have happened from the 1940s until 1972, when the Marine Protection, Research and Sanctuaries Act,…

While working to map parts of Southern California’s deep-sea as part of a follow-up survey, an unexpected discovery was made when World War II munitions were found scattered across the seafloor.

The US. Navy said the munitions were probably dumped during the World War II era as ships returned to port, at that time considered a safe and government-approved disposal method.

High-resolution cameras found a massive dumping ground of munitions from the Pacific War which were tossed overboard warships before they could endanger the ports they were returning to

It’s not just toxic chemical waste and mysterious barrels that litter the seafloor off the coast of Los Angeles. Oceanographers now discovered what appears to be a massive dumping ground of military weaponry. As part of an unprecedented effort to map and better understand the history of ocean dumping in the region, scientists found a multitude of discarded munition boxes, smoke floats and depth charges lurking 3,000 feet underwater. Most appear to be from the World War II era, and its uncl...

San Diego researchers say a notorious DDT dump site in the San Pedro basin is littered with World War II-era munitions

The study found thousands of barrel-sized objects organized in lines across 135 square miles of the San Pedro basin.

It’s not just toxic chemical waste and mysterious barrels that litter the seafloor off the coast of Los Angeles. Oceanographers have now discovered what appears to be a massive dumping ground of military weaponry.

World War II-era munitions were discovered by scientists following the discovery of DDT between Palos Verdes Peninsula and Catalina Island