WWII shipwreck leaked pollutants into sea, changing ocean floor - study
Shipwrecks often contain hazardous materials - explosives, petroleum, and other substances that could be harmful to the oceanic environment.
Source: jpost.com
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Shipwrecks often contain hazardous materials - explosives, petroleum, and other substances that could be harmful to the oceanic environment.
Analysis of a shipwreck from World War II has shown it to be leaking hazardous pollutants, such as explosives and heavy metals, into the ocean floor sediment of the North Sea some 80 years after its last voyage, researchers have said.