The bottoms of the North Sea form a graveyard of ships sunk during two world wars. Long, inert, these steel hulls rust and allow their cargo of explosives to escape. Off a Danish island, one of these war wrecks distills from the TNT into the shells.
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The bottoms of the North Sea form a graveyard of ships sunk during two world wars. Long, inert, these steel hulls rust and allow their cargo of explosives to escape. Off a Danish island, one of these war wrecks distills from the TNT into the shells.