Sea life thriving on unexploded Nazi bombs, sub discovers | International

PARIS, Sept 26, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Marine life is thriving on unexploded Nazi bombs sitting at the bottom of a German bay, a submersible has discovered, even capturing footage of starfishes creeping across a huge chunk of TNT. The discovery, which was revealed in a study published Thursday, was "one of those rare but remarkable eureka moments," marine biologist Andrey Vedenin told AFP. The waters off Germany's coast are estimated to be littered with 1.6 million tons of unexploded munitions left behind from both world wars. In October last year, a team of German scientists went to a previously uncharted dump site in the Baltic Sea's Luebeck Bay and sent an unmanned submersible 20 metres down to the seafloor. They...