The Black Tears of the Sea
Scattered around coasts worldwide are ticking time bombs: 6,300 wrecks, sunk in WWII, have been rusting away underwater. The threat they pose goes beyond the entirety of all oil spill catastrophes. Oceanographers, coast guards, and salvage experts around the world agree on one thing: the question is not whether further massive oil spills from WWII wrecks will cause oil pollution, but when.
Scattered around coasts worldwide are ticking time bombs: 6,300 wrecks, sunk in WWII, have been rusting away underwater. The threat they pose goes beyond the entirety of all oil spill catastrophes. Oceanographers, coast guards, and salvage experts around the world agree on one thing: the question is not whether further massive oil spills from WWII wrecks will cause oil pollution, but when.
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