Poland: Threat lurking in the Baltic | DW Documentary
Poland: Threat lurking in the Baltic | DW Documentary
The wrecks of World War II ships are strewn across the Baltic Sea floor – a ticking ecological time bomb. Former Polish Navy commander Benedykt Hac is tackling the problem.
Sooner or later, fuel leakages could contaminate the beaches of the Baltic Sea. But because the danger is less visible than in the case of a dramatic oil spill, many people in Poland are looking the other way. A report by Katarzyna Tuszyńska und Axel Rowohlt. A report by Katarzyna Tuszyńska und Axel Rowohlt.
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when was Poland ever NOT a ticking time bomb? lol
DW documentary channel is a great documentary channel..it’s covered efforts rounding the world 🌎…👍🏻🤍💙💜🙏…what about coordination efforts amongst countries of Baltic sea 🌊 Basin for removing, cleaning trails of WW2 … theirs
Wow. My prayers to the polish people. Hope the world is able to assist them with this.
It should be fairly easy to pump the fuel out of the tanks that are only 70 meters deep.
What about the Russian Nuclear subs dotting the bottom just poisoning the planet
RIP humans, not soon enough
Bombs, toxins, ships and fuel are a problem but nothing compared to Baltic Sea hypoxia refers to low levels of oxygen in bottom waters due to nutrients pollution from farms and city-as much as 25% of bottom water are total oxygen dead. almost from Gdansk to Finland
Thank you for this alarming report. Thank you Bemnedykt Hac for your great courage and energy to make visible before it will be too late of what is still hidden.
Well done humans…
Maybe it’s time for Poland to make a call to its neighbouring countries to help with this if they are not able to do it on their own. When those ships full of oil burst, this is not only the Polish waters that will be polluted but all of the Baltic sea and its life. I am sure people of science and ordinary people can join up and do this. Where there is a will, there is a way.
*Unexploded Ordnance. Ordinance is something entirely different, fyi.
All these rich nations that participated in world war 2 should pay for the clean up. The rest of us are now paying for these ecological disasters and pollution!
MANKIND NEVER THINKS OF CONSEQUENCES ON THIS LEVEL, WATERS AROUND THE GLOBE ARE TICKING TIME BOMBS!!!!!!!!!
If the Germans had to pay for everything an Austrian painter did, they would go bankrupt
No one knows who should pay to clean this mess ?
I know . The ones that started this mess in 1939 .
When i scratch your car i have to pay .
The worst virus on this earth, mankind 😔
Ah! The 40’s! When they didn’t give a shit about the environment. Oh wait! They still don’t!
And countries want nuclear submarines
Graf Zeppelin was also discovered, wonder how much oil is still inside of the bunkers.
If poland lacks the knowhow, why isn‘t there cooperation with and involvement of other concerned states!? It might be in polands waters, but everyone has an interst in solving that (seemingly huge!) problem.. states should back the man‘s initiative
There’s 1000s of shipwrecks like this all over the world. This is the price we pay for building these war machines. Everyone is responsible and best case scenario would be to stop doing this all together…🍻
What about Lithuania borders ? Clean ??
US be like: did someone say OIL?!
Usually it need to be break and after an disaster only they will do something about it
Same as Chuuk (Truk) Lagoon in the Pacific.
There’s a protest in Iran in 2022
Yahweh hallelujah shalom, i pray for unity,the cause and foundation of the war is Italy nd France Paris,and America,Napoli,Rome,Taranto,Torino,Sardinia
It’s all because of theGermans starting tgeWar! GermansMust remove them!
i feel like a watched a longer version of this like a year or 2 ago
Our actions are irreversible.these wars affected so many families and still is affecting future generations.we continue living so..
Who’s ships and munitions are they? They should be responsible for the cleanup.
Sounds like Germany needs to fund the cleanup as it’s their vessels causing the disaster.
@DW Documentary @0:38 Not a big, hairy deal, but you used the wrong word. Ordinance refers to laws and regulations. Ordnance (no ‘i’) refers to explosives.
~Cheers from Michigan
WHAT ABOUT CALIFORNIA AND JAPAN?
You don’t even want my comment on the damage that is done to the Mother of us all. Let the Ship(t) sink!
Humanity is doomed!A ticking time bomb.
I think this is just nature taking revenge on the most warlike continent on the Earth’s history.
Send the bill to Germany.
Who is responible for this? Is it another dark joke? Germany and Russia as agressors for fuck sake. Poland is a pray both in the past when WW2 took place and now as a beneficient of todays hazard and disadvantages. Simple is that.
Germany needs to pay to clean this up, they also need to pay to defend and rebuild Ukraine. Germany always seems to be involved….
Fox News ending remarks are too long ,
This documentary has No ending remarks at all ,
Modern Man has doomed the biosphere.
Dilution is solution to pollution.
Eigentlich ist klar : Deutschland, als Nachfolge-Staat des "Deutschen Reiches", ist verantwortlich für die Bergung und Entsorgung dieser Wracks.
Nations and the environment always pay the cost of this kind of atrocity, and authorities and politicians do not seem to take an interest in this issue
Estimated 3 million wrecks on the world’s ocean floor.
American watching from the State of Rhode Island in the U.S.-though this threat will probably never effect me directly-it’s still very interesting and important-the environment should be preserved-EVERYWHERE-I hope to see a follow-up to this story soon-that serious action is being taken to address this major issue-much luck to Cmdr. Benedykt.
Facing the European energy crisis! And European negative interest rate policy! Risk of economic collapse! The exchange rate of RMB against Euro will rise sharply!
the guy who sinks it: cleans it.