Rusland en (milieu)defensie

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dit moest eens in Nederland gebeuren, wat zal dat een heisa geven.


coordinates : 69°13'24.66"N 33°20'48.86"E
google map : http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=69%C2%B013%2724.66%22N+33%C2%B020%2748.86%22E&ie=UTF8&ll=69.22352,33.35505&spn=0.009438,0.036736&t=h&z=15&iwloc=addr

The Cold War Submarine Graveyard of Russia's Kola Peninsula

Submarine graveyards like the one at Russia's Nezametnaya Cove may have a certain decrepit charm, but they can do untold environmental damage.

Half-hidden in Russia's Olenya Bay, adjoining an off-limits naval base, lies a secret that was only recently uncovered to its full extent. In the midst of the otherwise picturesque Russian tundra — home to reindeer, polar bears, Arctic foxes, wolverines and moose — giant metal skeletons raise their great mass toward a gray sky, as if asking where they went awry to deserve their fate.

The area around Nezametnaya Cove, close to the town of Gadzhiyevo, in Murmansk Oblast on the Kola Peninsula, is a cemetery where many a Russian submarine has gone to die. After serving their duty underwater, the submarines were brought to this restricted-access zone in the 1970s and then forgotten.

The location is high up in Russia's northwest, not far from the Finnish border, a place where strong winds blow for a good part of the year. At a time when the Cold War was still in full swing, shipyards had a hard time fulfilling the orders they received for military ships, and there was scarcely any time to even think of properly disposing of old submarines.

It's said that some of the old submarines were used for target practice in military exercises and often sunk, an employment of the old "out of sight, out of mind" strategy. Others were simply left in the bay to rust and rot, floating to the surface like so many whale carcasses.

Nobody wasted much thought on the stricken subs, but rust and oil from the hulls began polluting the water over the ensuing years.

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Foto's zie in de Link

http://1800recycling.com/2011/09/cold-war-submarine-recycling-graveyard-russia-kola-peninsula/