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During the extension of the seaport of Wismar in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany, archaeologists discovered a number of shipwrecks. One of them, the last to be discovered, was resting in only 9.8 feet (3 meters) of water. The Baltic Sea water and silt of the harbor had almost perfectly preserved the wreck’s timbers, due to the harbor’s seafloor environment being anaerobic, with very low alkalinity, almost no bacteria or rot, and no woodworms. [[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_large","fid":"59355","attributes":{"alt":"Perfectly preserved Viking shipwrecks discovered. (Landesamt für Kultur und Denkmalpflege Mecklenburg-Vorpommern)","class":"media-image","height":"407","style":"width: 610px; height: 407px;","typeof":"foaf:Image","width":"610"}}]] Perfectly preserved Viking shipwrecks discovered. (Landesamt für Kultur und Denkmalpflege Mecklenburg-Vorpommern) Measuring approximately 78.7 feet (24 meters) long by 13 feet (4 meters) wide, the large open-decked ship dates back to 1188 AD. 3D