The ticking time-bomb at the bottom of the Baltic Sea
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I read an article about it years ago. According to it, the Allies were supposed to dump those weapons into the ocean, but they didn't care to go so far, so they dropped them into the Baltic instead.
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#4This piece of "journalism" is pure speculation.
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#5That's a known one, then there are the ones from the Soviet union.
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#6That's a known one, then there are the ones from the Soviet union.
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#7I read an article about it in a polish science magazine many years ago. I'm surprised that given the potential catastrophic consequences of this, no one seems to be doing anything about it. We knew about this "time-bomb" for decades. Can anything be done about it?
I guess it's time to get used to the thought that "holiday on a beach" will soon mean visiting Croatia.
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#8Not just in the Baltic Sea. There's a dump of WWI poison gas grenades 2km off the Belgian coast, buried in the sand. You can see the marker buoys from the beach.
Here's a little map of the area: http://www.wereldoorlog1418.nl/gasoorlog/paardenmarkt.html
EDIT: Then there's the stuff on land. In Belgium they still recuperate between 100 and 200 tons of ammunition per year. Farmers post them by the side of the road for the bomb disposal teams to pick up. A couple of workers in Ypres (yes, that Ypres) died last month unintentionally digging up a WWI bomb.
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#10Some more detailed information: http://www.mir.gdynia.pl/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/BST-NATO...