The wrecks of explosives-laden Nazi ships sunk in the Danube River during World War II have emerged near Serbia’s river port town of Prahovo, after a drought in July and August that saw the river’s water level drop.
Four vessels dating from before 1950 have also come to light in Hungary’s Danube-Drava National Park near Mohacs, where the Danube’s water level stood at only 1.5 meters on Tuesday, the lingering effect of severe heat waves and persistent drought in July and August. The vessels revealed in Prahovo were among hundreds scuttled along the Danube by Nazi Germany’s Black Sea fleet in 1944 as they retreated from advancing Soviet forces, destroying the ships themselves.
What is visible and an unfortunate fact is that the wreck is diminishing as people are interested in it and parts of it are going missing.” The Danube stood at 1.17 meters in Budapest on Tuesday, which compares with an all-time record low of around 0.4 meters registered in October 2018. During floods, the Danube rises well above 6 meters .
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