$36 Million Of Silver Found From WWII Shipwreck
Now, here’s a classic story of sunken treasure! Apparently, the Nazis sunk a British merchant ship that was carrying around 61 tons of silver. The ship was hit by a Nazi U-boat’s torpedo and sunk on February 17 of 1941. In 2011, an American based underwater archaeology group found the shipwreck about 300 miles off Ireland’s coast. It was about 3 miles deep and the silver weighed a total of 1.8 million ounces. Actually, this ship, heading from India to England needed to break from the military convoy because of insufficient coal and the bad weather conditions and then was hit. Only one man from the 86 aboard survived.
$36 Million Of Silver Found From WWII Shipwreck
WWII Bomb Kills Construction Driver
Unfortunately, some of these WWII artifacts can be dangerous. Sadly, a WWII bomb killed a German construction worker and injured 13 others in 2014. The mechanical digger unknowingly set off the bomb. This bomb had been buried at the site since the 1940s. Apparently, the allied bombs were meant to combat the Nazis by bombing their factories. Nowadays, these bombs are often discovered. While the bulldozer driver lifted debris and dirt, he triggered it and the explosion shook cars and buildings even up to a kilometer away.
WWII Bomb Kills Construction Driver