Trains from all over Germany were sent to the coasts in 1946, and fishermen were commissioned to take the material to designated disposal areas in the Baltic and North Seas. Often, however, they threw the ammunition elsewhere into the ocean, and strong currents, especially in the North Sea, have spread the ordnance all over the seafloor. In an effort to clean up the seabed from the remains of war, Germany has given $117.4 million to diving teams to study how to best recover the ammunition, and to engineers to come up with long-term plans on how to rid the oceans of it.
Author: Polly Davis Doig
Published at: 2025-09-15 22:13:00
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