Knowledge Portal Munitions in the Sea
Claus Böttcher shows the interactive map amucad.org, where locations of airborne sea mines from WW II are indicated. Here: Sailing of the M/V Haithabu to the former Baltic Sea explosives dumping ground Kolberger Heide near Kiel (off Schönberg in Plön County).
In addition to archival research, survey procedures, detection techniques, and charting methods are applied to locate munitions in the sea.State-of-the-art acoustical, optical, magnetic and chemical detection, increasing autonomy of sensor platforms, and upcoming AI-based interpretation methods are enabling to conduct wide-area surveys and detailed assessments of artificial objects on the seafloor in the near future.