As the sun rises over the Baltic port of Gdańsk in Poland, an urgent mission unfolds. The research ship EOR, manned by a dedicated team from the Marine Institute of Gdańsk, prepares to embark on a critical expedition. This team, led by Benedict Ha, a former Polish Navy commander, has been grappling with an alarming issue that poses a serious environmental threat—rusting shipwrecks from World War II lying beneath the Baltic Sea.
The Discovery of the Stuttgart
In 1999, during a routine seabed mapping operation, Benedict Ha and his team stumbled upon a troubling find: the wreck of the German hospital ship Stuttgart. The Stuttgart, which was nearly 170 meters long, had been sunk during a bombing raid in October 1943.
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