We’re talking about Lake Powell and Lake Mead here in the US drying up, leaving intakes high and dry and revealing bodies and boats, but in Europe the rivers are also drying up. Near the mouth of the Danube this has revealed sunken German ships from WWII, some with possibly still-live ammo on board.
They’ve been known about for years (they’re navigation hazards), but now they’re sticking out of the water.
On the lighter side, drought conditions in Texas have revealed more dinosaur foot[prints
I’ve read about Lake Powell fro years. Have European rivers been shrinking for some time, or is it a recent problem?
I get the impression that this drastic lowering is recent, just as the drastic drop in Lakes Powell and Mead are recent and greater manifestations of a trend that has been going on for a while.
Rivers are not shrinking on a regular basis, they fill in winter and shrink in summer, but the trend is there: it has been raining less and particularly snowing much less in recent years. Spain is suffering a severe drought, which has been getting worse and worse for about 50 years, which is bad for agriculture, migrating birds (two links), tourism, golf courses… Spanish rivers are not used much as waterways in comparison to Germany, they are mostly too small and shallow, but dams have been built for energy and water reservoirs, and they are at record low levels (link in Spanish: Med. 10 Años means average last 10 years). 2018 was a bad year too, as this article from last week’s the Economist shows (nice graph included):
I have heard nothing about European dino prints yet.
I’m waiting to hear about the dead bodies coming to light.
Does anyone y’know what warships they are? Troop/ammo transportsz or are there any actual gunboats?
More interesting stuff revealed by lower waters – Chinese Buddhas and Spanish Stonehenge
So, a few small warships – U-boats, small gunboats, torpedo boats, etc. A lot of transports – the 100 Marinefährprahm ferry barges, some of which were also lightly armed.
The articles I’ve read suggest that Serbia is going to have to contract the clearing. Why not Germany? A wrecked warship is always the property of the country that operated it at the time it was wrecked, under salvage laws, so why isn’t Germany on the hook for tidying up its mess?