‘Ticking Ecological Time Bombs’: Thousands Of Sunken Ships From WWII Are Rusting At The Bottom Of The Pacific Earthquakes, storm surges and other natural disasters could mean environmental catastrophe if oil and other hazardous material spill out.
The suspected source? A World War II shipwreck.
More than 3,800 ships were sunk during World War II across the Pacific, each now holding the potential for catastrophic environmental fallout.
Many of these shipwrecks contain a potentially devastating threat: Thousands of tons of oil and an unknown quantity of bombs and chemical weapons.
