A discovered warship wreck vanishedSourced
The wreck was found in 2002.
By 2016, only its outline remained.
The Dutch cruiser De Ruyter sank in World War II and its wreck was found in 2002. A memorial expedition in 2016 found only an imprint on the seabed. Investigators examined the illegal dismantling of shipwrecks that are also war graves.
History on the seabed
can disappear too.
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HNLMS De Ruyter (1935) · Wikimedia contributors
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