The Big Baltic Bomb Cleanup

Photo caption: Germany’s North and Baltic Seas are littered with munitions from the First and Second World Wars, such as shells — as shown here — once fired from German battleships. Photo courtesy of SeaTerra. Article by Paul Hockenos. Hakai Magazine – September 5, 2024.

Aboard the Alkor, a 55-meter oceanographic vessel anchored in the Baltic Sea several kilometers from the German port city of Kiel, engineer Henrik Schönheit grips a joystick-like lever in his fist. He nudges the lever up, and a one-of-a-kind robotic sea crawler about the size of a two-seat golf cart responds, creeping forward along the seafloor on rubber caterpillar tracks 12 meters below the ship. As the crawler inspects […]

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