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Shipwrecks teem with underwater life, from microbes to sharks

  • Written by Avery Paxton, Research Marine Biologist, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
imageA school of grunts on a sunken World War II German submarine in the Atlantic Ocean off North Carolina.Karen Doody/Stocktrek Images via Getty Images

Humans have sailed the world’s oceans for thousands of years, but they haven’t all reached port. Researchers estimate that there are some three million shipwrecks worldwide, resting in...

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