“We’re studying the ship wrecks in the same way that you would study a battlefield on land, like Gettysburg, or the Custer battlefield site (the Battle at the Little Big Horn is just another name for it), or Normandy, where we’re looking at the physical remains of the ships on the bottom, where they’re located, looking at the historical records and how those ships moved, and looking at the seabed now as a battlefield” — a researcher for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, whose funding is providing a reminder that the Nazis were actually “at our doorstep,” and also that the government still knows how to spend money like James Cameron.viaAl Jazeera
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