Severe Drought Exposes Historic Shipwrecks Along the Danube River
Climate change has revealed an unexpected sight in Europe’s Danube River: decades-old shipwrecks, emerging above the river’s record-low water level. Continued heatwaves and drought across Europe have hit the Danube hard, with the latest victim being a segment of the river in Serbia and Croatia. In both Serbia and Croatia, the receding water levels of the Danube have exposed old shipwrecks, like a freight ship that sank in 1937 in Croatia and a German flotilla that sank in 1944 in eastern Serbia.
- ▪Climate change has revealed an unexpected sight in Europe’s Danube River: decades-old shipwrecks, emerging above the river’s record-low water level.
- ▪Continued heatwaves and drought across Europe have hit the Danube hard, with the latest victim being a segment of the river in Serbia and Croatia.
- ▪In both Serbia and Croatia, the receding water levels of the Danube have exposed old shipwrecks, like a freight ship that sank in 1937 in Croatia and a German flotilla that sank in 1944 in eastern Serbia.
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Climate change has revealed an unexpected sight in Europe’s Danube River: decades-old shipwrecks, emerging above the river’s record-low water level. Continued heatwaves and drought across Europe have hit the Danube hard, with the latest victim being a segment of the river in Serbia and Croatia. In both Serbia and Croatia, the receding water levels of the Danube have exposed old shipwrecks, like a freight ship that sank in 1937 in Croatia and a German flotilla that sank in 1944 in eastern Serbia. The low waters of the Danube come as a worrying development in central Europe, not just for shipping and tourism, but also for historic preservation of sunken ships as well.
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