seems there has been realized only in recent days in the seas around the world this is a lot of great shipwrecks. The monthly magazine "Focus", after leaving the news from the "New Scientist, published a very interesting article. It seems that one can talk of post-war un'ecocatastrofe fact, after almost 70 years from the sinking wreck of 8659 (among them more than 1,500 oil tankers), the salt water had corroded the metal to the limit of keeping the tanks containing, in addition to fuel, various chemicals including mustard gas, all potentially dangerous.
The mustard gas is a dangerous chemical, has always prohibited by all international humanitarian agreements that, once the armies were still included, to respond to possible chemical attacks of the enemy.
Towards the end of the war chemical weapons became an embarrassing burden to make to disappear and it was decided to sink them. In Italy the Allies sank off the front of Manfredonia and the Isle of Ischia, and Hitler ordered instead disposal in waters south of Pesaro, where they are still and pose a serious threat to the marine ecosystem.
In the Mediterranean there are about 361 and as a result of corrosion processes, may soon drop into the sea a quantity 'of fuel 20 times the output from the BP platform in the Gulf of Mexico and 10 times the loss of the Exxon Valdez.
Source: (New Scientist)
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