you ever wondered what happens to the ships, end of life?To create special recycling man-made ship graveyard.They can be dry docks in which store ships containing asbestos and other materials that may have an adverse impact on the environment.Man-made ship graveyard can be created and in the sea, where old ships are left to crumble or disassembled into its component parts.But undoubtedly the most interesting of these are not artificially created resting places and ship graveyard arising spontaneously.
Insidious Atlantic
During the existence of the Atlantic Maritime has become the last refuge for millions of courts established in different eras.Usually ships cemetery arise at the intersection of sea routes, where brave sailors lie in wait treacherous reefs, wandering sands, not marked on the maps of the rock.So, not far from Dover is the place where the terrain is constantly changing its shape, carrying a real threat to mariners, even today.What can we say about those seafarers who did not know modern instruments?About Dover there is a cemetery of sunken ships, which, according to historians, buried hundreds of "floating Posudin" and more than 50 thousand people who lived in different historical times.The bottom of the drilled to a depth of 15 meters, the scientists found that the entire core is taken from the remains of the ship skins, wood and iron.Meli Goodwin thoroughly imbued with the ship's corruption.No wonder today is a terrible place called the "Great Devourer of ships."There are many places.Cemeteries have ships in the Caribbean and the Mediterranean, the Bermuda Triangle, the Indian Ocean, Fiji and hundreds of other places.Some triremes started in ancient centuries, is under a thick layer of residues of Viking ships, medieval caravel, frigate modern times and modern ships disappeared in our time.Why is there such graveyards?
Why?
Causes of ship graveyards can be:
- storm that could not resist sailing ships.
- mists navigate that without special equipment was virtually impossible.
- strong currents, which could not withstand the ships.Lessons on the reefs, they stayed there forever if they do not have time to take off at high tide.
most famous ship graveyard
addition "Great Devourer ships" There are other places where centuries of accumulated sunken ships (photo).Graveyard of ships in Taranto (Italy) are quite well known, there among the 16 vessels is one who has received special recognition because of its cargo.The ship was lucky coins, marble sarcophagi and tamarisk.The interesting thing is that after a century cargo is still in good condition.Among the modern cemetery it is quite large in Mauritania.After the nationalization of many fishing and transport ships were simply abandoned by the owners.They are still rotting off the coast.There is a place in Russia in the Aral Sea.There's a result of ecological disaster hundreds of ships destroyed in the desert, more recently, the former seabed.The biggest vehicular graveyard in Pakistan.Huge tankers, and luxury cruise ships are being cut into small pieces and discard.
