{"id":38,"date":"2019-12-05T08:40:47","date_gmt":"2019-12-05T08:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/int.cleanwreck.org\/?page_id=38"},"modified":"2023-01-24T16:13:28","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T15:13:28","slug":"contaminated-wrecks","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/int.cleanwreck.org\/","title":{"rendered":"Contaminated wrecks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Thousands of ships that sank during WWII are leaking oil. With the disintegration of their rusty tanks, it is <\/span><strong><span lang=\"en-US\">not a question of whether<\/span><\/strong> <span lang=\"en-US\">a \u201cpeak leak\u201d, a breakthrough with far-reaching consequences for the environment, will happen, <\/span><strong><span lang=\"en-US\">but when<\/span><\/strong><span lang=\"en-US\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Current estimates assume <strong>2.5 to 20 million tons of oil<\/strong> stored worldwide in these potentially dangerous wrecks \u2013 about twice to twenty times as much as the amount that went into the sea in 2010 during the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Deepwater_Horizon_oil_spill\">Deepwater Horizon catastrophe<\/a><span lang=\"en-US\">. <\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span lang=\"en-US\">The same applies to other toxic substances such as ammunition. We must <strong>detect, investigate and treat<\/strong> potentially dangerous wrecks <strong>now,<\/strong> before they harm fauna and flora. Between 1939 and 1945, more than 300 ships were sunk in the Mediterranean alone, including 20 tankers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">The following NewScientist graph impressively shows the incredible amounts of heavy oil lurking at the bottom of our oceans.<\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_83\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-83\" style=\"width: 803px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/int.cleanwreck.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Oil.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-83 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/int.cleanwreck.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Oil-803x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Heavy oil in shipwrecks\" width=\"803\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/int.cleanwreck.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Oil-803x1024.jpg 803w, https:\/\/int.cleanwreck.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Oil-235x300.jpg 235w, https:\/\/int.cleanwreck.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Oil-768x979.jpg 768w, https:\/\/int.cleanwreck.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Oil-1x1.jpg 1w, https:\/\/int.cleanwreck.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Oil.jpg 966w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 803px) 100vw, 803px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-83\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Heavy oil in shipwrecks<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Most have still not been located, few have been inspected or even decontaminated. This is where our <strong>Marine Conservation Project Clean Wreck<\/strong> comes in, with the aim of tracking down <strong>as many of these ticking bombs as possible and making them harmless.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">More about the race against the ravages of time, which gnaws at the steel of the oil tanks under<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/int.cleanwreck.org\/?page_id=586\">Strategies<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/int.cleanwreck.org\/?page_id=448\">Wreck decontamination and dive site preparation<\/a> \u00a0<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/int.cleanwreck.org\/?page_id=47\">More about dangerous wrecks<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/int.cleanwreck.org\/?page_id=238\">Facts and Positions<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[paypal-donation]<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of ships that sank during WWII are leaking oil. With the disintegration of their rusty tanks, it is not a question of whether a \u201cpeak leak\u201d, a breakthrough with far-reaching consequences for the environment, will happen, but when. Current estimates assume 2.5 to 20 million tons of oil stored worldwide in these potentially dangerous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-38","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/int.cleanwreck.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/int.cleanwreck.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/int.cleanwreck.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/int.cleanwreck.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/int.cleanwreck.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/int.cleanwreck.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":795,"href":"https:\/\/int.cleanwreck.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38\/revisions\/795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/int.cleanwreck.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}