{"id":85919,"date":"2018-12-17T08:24:05","date_gmt":"2018-12-17T16:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/an-underwater-ghost-fleet-of-shipwrecks-is-on-the-move-and-heres-why"},"modified":"2018-12-17T08:24:05","modified_gmt":"2018-12-17T16:24:05","slug":"an-underwater-ghost-fleet-of-shipwrecks-is-on-the-move-and-heres-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/an-underwater-ghost-fleet-of-shipwrecks-is-on-the-move-and-heres-why","title":{"rendered":"An Underwater \u2018Ghost Fleet\u2019 of Shipwrecks Is On the Move, and Here\u2019s Why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/an-underwater-ghost-fleet-of-shipwrecks-is-on-the-move-and-heres-why.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 The history of maritime vessels in the U.S. is preserved in an unlikely place \u2014 at the bottom of a river.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 200 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/60859-shipwreck-excavation-awaits-court-ruling.html\">military shipwrecks<\/a> \u2014 dating as far back as the Revolutionary War and including ships from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/13673-civil-war-anniversary-myths.html\">Civil War<\/a> and both World War I and World War II \u2014 were deliberately sunk over centuries, in an area of the Potomac River called Mallows Bay, in Maryland. Over time, this so-called ghost fleet of wooden ships has come to serve as habitat for local wildlife.<\/p>\n<p>But is this artificial ecosystem stable? Researchers recently investigated how the shipwrecks have changed over time; their findings, presented here on Dec. 13 at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), explained how the bodies of the ships weathered river conditions \u2014 in some cases for hundreds of years \u2014 and how that might affect the future of the ghost fleet ecosystem. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/60505-mysterious-shipwrecks-on-google-earth.html\">Mayday! 17 Mysterious Shipwrecks You Can See on Google Earth<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/64319-ghost-fleet-shipwrecks-drifting.html\">https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/64319-ghost-fleet-shipwrecks-drifting.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 The history of maritime vessels in the U.S. is preserved in an unlikely place \u2014 at the bottom of a river. Nearly 200 military shipwrecks \u2014 dating as far back as the Revolutionary War and including ships from the Civil War and both World War I and World War II \u2014 were deliberately [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}