The Black Sea's waters are anoxic, and the sea was heavily traversed since antiquity. So there are lots of amazing shipwrecks on the bottom, in amazing condition. Check this out:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/12/science/shipwrecks-black-sea-archaeology.html?hpw&rref=science&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region®ion=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=2
I'm actually more interested in why a huge body of water with access to other oceans can be anoxic.
They explain it in the article Mono :)
"The great rivers of Eastern Europe — the Don, the Danube, the Dnieper — pour so much fresh water into the sea that a permanent layer forms over denser, salty water from the Mediterranean. As a result, oxygen from the atmosphere that mixes readily with fresh water never penetrates the inky depths."
Cool.
I recently visited the Vasa museum again. They should totally raise some of the better wrecks.
these are beautiful pictures. Very interesting article Malthus! :)
Is "photogrametric" a fancy word for CGI?
To be fair, one of the reasons they are in such good shape is that they are mostly Bulgarian warships scuttled in the 1990's.
Quote from: Razgovory on November 15, 2016, 07:50:50 PM
To be fair, one of the reasons they are in such good shape is that they are mostly Bulgarian warships scuttled in the 1990's.
:lol:
Very cool :cool:
An a less positive note, the three Dutch warschips sunk in the battle of Java Sea have been found to have vanished from the seabed.
Something similar happened to the Australian and American wrecks from the battle, and to a lesser extent to Repulse and Prince of Wales.
Fucking scavengers :ultra: