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A WW1 Submarine Wreck Is Leaking Explosives Into The North Sea

A German WW1 submarine known as SM UC-30 was returning home in April 1917 when it hit a British mine and sank. Twenty-seven men were lost in the wreck, along with the 18 mines and six torpedoes the submarine was loaded with.

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A German World War I submarine, SM UC‑30, struck a British mine and sank while returning home in April 1917. The wreck claimed the lives of 27 crew members and contained the vessel’s cargo of 18 mines and six torpedoes. Those explosives are now leaking from the sunken hull into the North Sea, posing an ongoing hazard.

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