Drought Exposes Sunken Nazi Warships In Danube

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Drought Exposes Sunken Nazi Warships In Danube
August 19, 2022

The Associated Press reports:

Europe’s worst drought in years has pushed the mighty river Danube to one of its lowest levels in almost a century, exposing the hulks of dozens of explosives-laden German warships sunk during World War Two near Serbia’s river port town of Prahovo.

Months of drought and record-high temperatures have snarled river traffic on vital arteries in other parts of Europe, including Germany, Italy and France. In Serbia, the authorities have resorted to dredging to keep navigation lanes on the Danube open.

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Thu Aug-07-03: As Danube Falls, WWII Nazi Shipwrecks Resurface

07 August 2003
Associated Press

BELGRADE, Serbia-Montenegro - "The wreckage of sunken Nazi warships has resurfaced along a stretch of the Danube River in eastern Serbia as the major European waterway has receded to an unprecedented low amid a heat wave and drought.

The rusty, 60-year-old remnants of several warships, believed parts of Germany's Black Sea Fleet, have begun protruding in recent days above the surface of the normally wide and deep river near the eastern Serbian town of Prahovo, 180 kilometers (110 miles) east of the capital, Belgrade.

In the stretch where the ships have surfaced, the river has fallen to barely 3 meters (10 feet) from its normal level of 15 meteres (50 feet), as Europe experiences one of its worst heat waves in decades.

'The Danube is at its lowest level since records began here in 1888,'Srdja Popovic, an environment official in the Serbian government, said Wednesday."

http://www.enn.com/news/2003-08-07/s_7282.asp

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1. Thanks for posting, fascinating discovery.