Danube Drought Exposes Nazi-Era Wrecks in Serbia, Delays Shipping
Approximately 200 wrecks and debris are clogging the Danube, while drought-driven low water has forced ship delays and reactor slowdowns, officials said.
- Drought-Driven low water levels in the Danube River have exposed dozens of Nazi Germany's Black Sea fleet vessels near Prahovo, Serbia, as the heatwave sweeping across Europe reveals wreckage submerged for decades.
- During their 1944 retreat, German forces scuttled these vessels to prevent capture by advancing Soviet troops in World War II, leaving hundreds of ships scattered along the Danube that periodically emerge.
- According to the European Investment Bank, approximately 200 vessels lie scattered along the waterway, with some ships still containing ammunition and explosives that pose hazards to communities and shipping operations.
- Serbia faces annual shipping losses estimated at roughly €5m due to the debris, prompting the European Investment Bank to commit €16m for blockage removal as part of a Balkans investment plan.
- Further north in Bulgaria, researchers recently discovered mammoth remains near the city of Ruse, while the European Investment Bank has committed to recovering similar Kriegsmarine wrecks emerging across the river in recent years.
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(Berlin=Yonhap News) Correspondent Kim Gye-yeon = As the Danube River dries up due to drought, traces of the Nazi German military from World War II are being revealed one after another.
The drought hitting Europe amid an intense heat wave has caused the level of the Danube, the continent's second longest river, to drop so much that the wreckage of dozens of German warships from World War II has reappeared. Near Prahovo, a Serbian port on the border with Romania, a rusty hull and a broken mast emerged in the middle of the river, which has reached historic lows. On the same iron structure, a flag of Adolf Hitler's Nazi army once…
Nazi Ghost Fleet Rises From The Danube As Europe Bakes
[Image: Facebook] The Danube has dropped low enough near Prahovo in Serbia for rusty German warship hulls to push back into daylight, broken masts and all. The war relics are sitting exposed in the middle of Europe’s second-longest river, on the Serbia-Romania stretch near the Djerdap II dam, after drought and brutal heat pulled the water away from the wrecks again. Dozens of World War II German ships are now visible near the Serbian port, some …
Amid intense heat and receding water levels in Europe, an 80-year-old World War II warship has resurfaced in the Danube River. Experts are considering this a sign of the increasing impact of climate change. According to scientists, rising global temperatures could increase the frequency and severity of such incidents.
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