During the extension of the seaport of Wismar in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany, archaeologists discovered a number of shipwrecks. One of them, the last to be discovered, was resting in only 9.8 feet (3 meters) of water.
The Baltic Sea water and silt of the harbor had almost perfectly preserved the wreck's timbers, due to the harbor's seafloor environment being anaerobic, with very low alkalinity, almost no bacteria or rot, and no woodworms.
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