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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 it's unclear what risk they might pose to the environment.

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