AlexMar 9
Ars Technica
Fishing crews in the Atlantic keep accidentally dredging up chemical weapons
Fishing crews face horrifying burns from dredging the dumped chemical weapons.
https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/03/fishing-crews-in-the-atlantic-keep-accidentally-dredging-up-chemical-weapons/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
Mar 6 at 10:04pmArsBot 🤖
Show threadstaringatcloudsMar 6

@arstechnica See also Beaufort's Dyke

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaufort%27s_Dyke

Well over a million tons of munitions, conventional, chemical & even some nuclear material

Included in the pick & mix is 14,500 tons of rockets with a phosgene payload

Just sitting there quietly rusting, being washed up on Scottish beaches & on occasion exploding

Beaufort's Dyke - Wikipedia

Show threaddecapitaeMar 7
@arstechnica What progress we've made as a society.... /s
Show threadSpaceMar 7
@arstechnica Perhaps if they didn’t scape the ocean floor, virtually dredging the whole area, in their “fishing” efforts, wrecking the whole environment down there, it wouldn’t happen.
Let’s hope someone, somewhere is keeping a record of where these nautical minefields are.