During the exercise, German ships torpedoed petrol-loaded ships. Over 700 Americans died. In total, around 4,400 Allied soldiers and thousands of Germans lost their lives in the Normandy landing. Nature now regains the place where tragedy erstwhile happened.
Hidden weapons
Steve Mortimer is simply a diver specializing in identifying wrecks in British waters. He explains that wrecks are time capsules and resting places of soldiers. There are weapons in the remains of planet War II ships so far. Years later, however, life is revived on the wrecks – there are large nestles of fungi and starfish-like hulls adjacent to them. Fish have lived here, which in another circumstances would have chosen natural reefs – mintajs, molwa, kongers and Labraks.
According to historian Harry Bennett, a prof. at Plymouth University, the invasion of Normandy caused artificial reefs to appear in the English Channel. The student explains that erstwhile equipment sinks down, a home is created for tiny animals and plants that begin to colonize it. Trawlers avoid wrecks to defend networks, so nature uses it. The submerged machines begin to make tiny parks of wildlife. investigation shows that the richness and diversity of micro-organisms is expanding in their neighbourhood. In a 2014 article devoted to wrecks off the coast of the large Coral Reef in Australia, Thomas Stieglitz, an adjunct at James Cook University, observed that the impact of wrecks on marine life reaches many meters from their resting place.
Test wreck
Off the coast of Whitsand Bay in Cornwall lies the HMS "Scylla" wreckage – Royal Navy frigates, which in 2004 was specially sunk to conduct research. "Scylla" allowed to observe changes in flora and fauna: from the first arrival of buds, sea urchins, scallops and starfish to the appearance characteristic of the wrecks of the common and soft coral, suggested by the fingers of the dead. By 2007, the reef was besides colonized by brightly colored lipomatosis. By 2009, "Scylla" became home to 263 different species.
Sea wrecks besides have a negative impact on the environment. erstwhile they enter water, they can destruct existing reefs and vegetation and can introduce invasive species transported in their ballast waters into the ecosystem. There are frequently toxic substances in the wreckage. It is estimated that specified units worldwide contain as much as 20.4 million tonnes of oil.
When the flotilla departed from Britain on 5 June 1944, weather conditions were so bad that many landing boats and tanks sank. By June 21, more than 40 allied ships sank or damaged German mines. During the landing tanks, aircraft and Norwegian destroyer HNoMS "Svenner" sank. There are besides 3 U.S. M-7 Priest self-propelled guns on Omaha beach; the Liberty SS ship “Charles W. Eliot”, which entered the mine on June 27, 1944, erstwhile he embarked on a return journey from Juno beach to the UK – they tried to transport it to the rescue tugs, but Luftwaffe bombed and sunk it; the HMS trawler “Magic”, torpedoed on July 6, 1944; part of the floating Mulberry port; the HMS trawler “Pylades”, sunk by U-boat on July 8, 1944; the American floating tank Sherman Duplex Drive – on the day of the invasion were besides advanced and many specified machines intended for Omaha were sunk; and the German U-boat U390, sunk on July 5, 1944 by HMS “Tavy” and HMS “Wandererererererer”.
