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Found: A Sunken Shipping Container!
The video at the end of the article is interesting!
Strange, Deep Sea Animals Thrive on Lost Shipping Container (VIDEO)
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Re: Found: A Sunken Shipping Container!
Thanks for sharing!
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Re: Found: A Sunken Shipping Container!
nice video. hard to believe its in monterey!
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Re: Found: A Sunken Shipping Container!
Can't believe they didn't tell us what's inside it. Sneakers? TVs? Iphones? Toothpaste? Baby bottles?
I gotta know!
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Can't believe they didn't tell us what's inside it. Sneakers? TVs? Iphones? Toothpaste? Baby bottles?
I gotta know!
It contains... 1,159 steel-belted car tires from China! Others
lost
in the same
accident
contained cyclone fencing, leather chairs and mattress pads.
News Release - MBARI teams with Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary to study effects of shipping containers lost at sea.
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Re: Found: A Sunken Shipping Container!
Thanks, Europaflyer! I didn't really think we would find out.
Now I can rest easy. Ah . . . tires. Of course.
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