Nature reclaims ship graveyaard. (Potomac: living, design, yard)

[Mr Blue Sky]

I've just seen this on the BBC News site and thought it might be of interest to one or two.

Mallows Bay, on the Maryland side of America's Potomac River, hosts potentially the largest group of World War One shipwrecks anywhere in the world.
A century since the United States entered the conflict, the BBC Travel Show has been to see how the vessels are being reclaimed by nature.

(Video 1min 36sec)
Nature reclaims US battleship graveyard - BBC News

[MidValleyDad]

Given the current administration I don't see any national designation happening. Oh and it is Maryland's Potomac River. All the way to the south bank!

[MrRational]

Originally Posted by Mr Blue Sky

...hosts potentially the largest group of World War One shipwrecks anywhere in the world.

This sort of poor editing (open) is what will undo wiki.

credible reporting from 2010:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...121102381.html

[G1..]

Been there it is pretty cool ,most of the wrecks are wooden ships that have just rotted away.I do understand that the water men who make a living around there would be upset.

[P47P47]

There are a few of those WWI wooden freighters in Curtis Bay near the Hawkins Point Road and I-695 drawbridges. About a dozen more were used to form a breakwater for Davison Chemicals (now W. R. Grace) by scuttling them in a line off shore.