In the depths of Lake Erie (USA) the boats were attacked by a kind of alien mollusk.
Ships capsize and located in the depths in the stormy waters of one of the lakes largest in the world sa USA is attacked by a colony of strange destructive creatures
Hundreds of damaged historic boats in the massive cemetery under the turbulent Lake Erie in the northeastern US becomes embedded with layers of zebra and quagga mussels.
Attack ships of exotic species
Before the start of invasion of alien species in the 1980sthe wooden boats were so well preserved in the cold and fresh water of the lake that the devastated divers said they looked exactly like when they first sank hundreds of years ago.
The crustacean-encrusted railings of the Sultan shipwreck on Lake Erie.
however, Mollusks, which reproduce rapidly, are devastating ships, decks and cargo discarded submerged or collapsed due to strong winds and waves that are a danger in Erie’s shallow waters, local media spread.
No one knows how many shipwrecks the lake is hiding, but experts are they calculated between 500 and 2000, with 277 identified of divers today.
What a NASA engineer says
Kevin Magee, an engineer at NASA’s Glenn Research Centertold the Earth Observatory: “We believe Lake Erie has a higher density of shipwrecks than almost anywhere else in the world, including the Bermuda triangle.”
A NASA image of Lake Erie, showing Kelleys Island.
Ang ghosts with crustacean stripesnative to Russia and Ukraine, is changing the ecosystems of all the Great Lakes on the border of the United States and Canada, which provides more than 20 percent of the world’s fresh waterbut they make the destructions more visible.
“They are filter feeders, so they really are increased water clarity. In many places the water is now so clear that we can get lbright light around 200 feet below the surface“explained the underwater explorer
But it also marked the downside: “Instead of seeing bare wood, original paint, or whatever else we’re trying to see, we just see surfaces covered in clusters of mussels.”
The grinding wheels carried by a shipper into the abyss covered with alien mussels.
shipwreck in lake deer
There are wrecks throughout the lake, averaging 60 feet deep, but more have been identified in the western basin around Toledo, Erie Islands and Cleveland, according to the Ohio Sea Grant Project. , report Glass.
In that area, the water is more than 7 meters deep, which makes torrent is more likelyand many hidden rocks and islands where ships could run aground.
Among the most well -known shipwrecks discovered under Erie is the sultan briga wooden freight carrying heavy millstones to Buffalo in overturned in 1864 after scraping the sandbank and being struck by strong waves.
View from the shores of Lake Erie, which houses the largest collection of shipwrecks in the world,
Cemetery of shipwrecks in Lake Erie (USA).
But when it comes to recognizing the oldest is the lake snake, which disappeared near Kelleys Island in 1829 after taking a shipment of limestone.
Source: Clarin
