{"id":27369,"date":"2008-09-05T12:06:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-05T12:06:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-05-14T18:37:34","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T18:37:34","slug":"2369-pollution-threat-feared-from-wwii-tanker-wrecks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/uncategorized\/2369-pollution-threat-feared-from-wwii-tanker-wrecks\/","title":{"rendered":"Pollution threat feared from WWII tanker wrecks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Corrosion experts say the wrecks could collapse, releasing any fuel inside them, within 10 to 15 years. But no-one knows how much fuel they contain because records from the period are scarce. It is known, however, that three of the wrecks are oil tankers, with a total capacity of 32 million litres.<\/p>\n<p>The tankers&#8217; hulls cannot withstand the corrosive saltwater forever. According to New Scientist magazine, the scale of the probem could be huge. A study published in 2006 found 380 tanker wrecks across the bottom of the Pacific.<\/p>\n<p>See<a href=\"https:\/\/environment.newscientist.com\/article\/dn14645-paradise-island-threatened-by-wrecked-wwii-oil-tanker.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> full story<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A sunken Japanese oil tanker from the second world war, one of 52 wrecks on the bottom of Micronesia&#8217;s Chuuk Lagoon, is releasing streams of diesel bubbles. 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