Large rusty wwii bundles are poisonous baltic sea. Germany is trying to recover

Boltenthagen, Germany (AP) – gradually, Dirk Schoenen dies down to the large characters of the World II in the bottom of the Baltic Sea. He removes some of the top pieces and carefully putting the basket, as a engineer, Divers and Semenen looking at all his movements in monitors is distributed live video attached.

An hour later, the men pulling Scoenen returned to the Baltic rising, 6 miles (3.7 miles) in the small town of Boltenhagen on the German coast. He has received a few 12.8cms, some of them are broken boxes, small bombs, and several inches.

His anointing was bearing fruit but it was modest in comparison with the rest of the ocean floor.

About 1.6 million tons of older tons of the north sea and put a serious danger: Their cases rusted slowly and releasing toxic materials such as TNT computers.

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Since the tension between Russia and Notos built the Baltic Sea, they had close-day events involving Western Western drones, and expanded by World War II – and expanded to sea.

Most of the letters had intentionally died on the battlefield because allies were worried that Germans would continue hostility again, sometimes that the Germany destroyed all the original. At that time the easiest way to do so seemed to be just dropping everything at sea.

Rails from all Germany were sent to the coast in 1946, and fishermen were sent to take possession of the selected areas in the Baltic and Northern. However, often, they throw characters elsewhere, as well as strong habits, especially on the sea and sea, have distributed ordnance throughout the sea.

In an effort to clean up the ocean from the war, the German government has given 100 million euros ($ 117.4 million) to the Divers groups to read long-term strategies for how to remove its sea.

The current four-week pilot project began on the Baltic elevating platform – a temporary crane crane is temporarily frustrated by a large field with approximately 900 tons of approximately 900 older tons of 900 characters.

Two Divers groups work in 12 hours changing the clock. It is very dangerous to bring rotten pieces on the platform, so they are originally organized and stored in baskets under water until a special ship takes them off the coast. This is only when they were taken to special institutions to drop old letters.

The risk of automatic explosion and dirt

“This is not a common job,” said Uskoenen, 60, had been consumed from 1986 and devoted himself to the Baltic Taucher Diving Diving.

“The challenge, of course, that you will never know what to find,” he said his passing pilies, including pairs of gloves to ensure that his skin does not take contact directly. “Most of these things can be handled, but you should not pay attention and just hit something or get rid of something.”

Rotted characters are not just for water – and can explode as marine mining counterparts that are not increasingly sensitive. That happens.

The worst, 80-year-old letters begin to poison the sea level: tnts of TNT explosives, considered carinogenic, detected in the intimate water with the arditions lying in the sea. Explanives from explosives are found accumulated in the sea life such as mussels and fish, according to the German environment earning pure efforts.

While a toxical levels are found under the safety limits of drinking water or seafood, “Crisis Helmholtz Center Delivery in February published in February published in February published in February published in February published in February.

The research center highlighted the “emergency Munitions permission to reduce long-term risk.”

The problem is very stressful in the Baltic Sea as a result of a small channel in the sea in the north and at the Atlantic, which means that contaminated water is not from the area for decades, according to German natural service. According to German natural service.

Some countries are facing similar problems

Government Project is not focused on the cleaning of the sea. Long-term policy is to find safe resources and quickly destroying, automated manner without various help, and to burn poisonous properties in the sea.

The current project and three projects associated with government-related government projects in the past year using the water robots to decide whether marine facilities should be organized, said Volker Hesse, Seague marineers.

Hesse emphasized that the findings were not just important in Germany but also a great interest in other countries because old letters died in the sea.

He also saw that the black sea also looks at the problem of alphabet from the Russian war in Ukraine.

“Every global problem – one should think about disputes in Vietnam or Cambodia, but also here in your area in Leelsican, Denmark, Poland,” he said.

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