3000 meters is pretty fucking deep.
Comment on what is north?
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Of course they aren’t going to give the exact location. That wreck would be ransacked for scrap metal if it isn’t resting too deep. Like in Indonesia several WW2 shipwrecks have gone missing.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 5 days ago
isolatedscotch@discuss.tchncs.de 5 days ago
a fun fact about this, by the way
the reason we scavenge steel from old shipwrecks is because all modern peoduced steel is contaminated with a miniscule - but still present - amount of radioactive isotopes, incompatible with some incredibly precise scientific instruments and other nieche, but essential applications, that not only require old steel, but old steel that wasn’t exposed to all the radioactive fallout during the nuclear tests in the cold war, hence why the sunken ships.
wikipedia article
adding a personal note here, if some nuclear tests around the world contaminated everything THIS MUCH, what will we say about microplastics in a couple decades? just food for thought
ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 4 days ago
People have been talking shit about microplastic contamination for a while now…
_stranger_@lemmy.world 4 days ago
You can’t see radiation filling up a bird’s stomach. People are, ultimately, very bad about dealing with things we cannot see.