As Danube Falls, WWII Nazi Shipwrecks Resurface

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07 August 2003
Associated Press

BELGRADE, Serbia-Montenegro - "The wreckage of sunken Nazi warships has resurfaced along a stretch of the Danube River in eastern Serbia as the major European waterway has receded to an unprecedented low amid a heat wave and drought.

The rusty, 60-year-old remnants of several warships, believed parts of Germany's Black Sea Fleet, have begun protruding in recent days above the surface of the normally wide and deep river near the eastern Serbian town of Prahovo, 180 kilometers (110 miles) east of the capital, Belgrade.

In the stretch where the ships have surfaced, the river has fallen to barely 3 meters (10 feet) from its normal level of 15 meteres (50 feet), as Europe experiences one of its worst heat waves in decades.

'The Danube is at its lowest level since records began here in 1888,'Srdja Popovic, an environment official in the Serbian government, said Wednesday."

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