This WWII Shipwreck Is Pouring Pollutants Into The North Sea

The North Sea is filled with thousands of wrecks from World War I and II, and a study shows that a WWII shipwreck is still spewing toxic substances into the seafloor.

By Sam Walters
Oct 21, 2022 4:00 PMJun 28, 2023 2:19 PM
Polluting WWII Ship
The torn deck of the V-1302 John Mahn is covered in microbial colonies (Credit: VLIZ).

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Situated between Great Britain, Germany, Belgium, Denmark, Norway and the Netherlands, the North Sea contains an assortment of artifacts from the two world wars.

And according to a paper published in Frontiers in Marine Science, one of these artifacts — a sunken ship from World War II — still pours pollutants into the floor of the sea almost a century after it sunk.

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