"Sunken WWII Tanker is Ecological Time Bomb" Topic
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| Tango01 | 21 Jan 2019 9:44 p.m. PST |
"The Franken was a German tanker that sank at the end of World War II. It was capable of carrying up to 11,000 tons of fuel and was used to fuel the German warships in the Baltic Sea. The Russians sank the Franken on April 8, 1945, near the Hel Peninsula off Gdansk, Poland. Some of the tanks on the ship were still filled with fuel. When the war ended, the ship became Polish property under international law, but it was not profitable to recover the ship at that time. It seemed fine to leave it there since it wasn't in anyone's way and wasn't causing any harm….."
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| bsrlee | 22 Jan 2019 6:52 a.m. PST |
There are dozens of full tankers off the US coast and around the Caribbean that have been leaking for decades, in the media at least in the 1970's, then 'forgotten' as 'too hard'. Then there is Pearl Harbor. |
| BattlerBritain | 22 Jan 2019 11:34 a.m. PST |
There's a sunken ship in the River Thames in the entrance to London with enough explosives still on board that if it went up would take out most of London. It was sunk in 1944. Best option – leave it well alone. |
| Tango01 | 22 Jan 2019 11:46 a.m. PST |
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| Lion in the Stars | 25 Jan 2019 9:34 p.m. PST |
Fuel tankers are one thing. It's relatively easy to remove the oil. Unexploded 'splodeys get blown in place. |
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