ramonmercado
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Sea Monster attack? Why is it a prohibited area? Maybe the station wasn't just monitoring the environment.
A massive environmental monitoring station off Germany's Baltic coast has disappeared from the seabed, baffling police and researchers.
The seabed "observatory", worth about €300,000 (£270,000), weighed more than half a tonne. It could not have been dragged off by a storm, tide or large animal, German experts say. Divers only found a torn power cable at the site, 22m (72ft) down and 1.8km (1.2 miles) offshore.
It is a prohibited area, north of Kiel. No boats - not even local fishing boats - are allowed into the area, called Eckernförde Bay, about 70km (44 miles) south of the Danish border.
The missing observatory, installed in late 2016, stopped sending data on 21 August. It consisted of a power unit, connected by cable to the coast, and an instrument unit, which together weighed 770kg (1,700 pounds).
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-49592330
A massive environmental monitoring station off Germany's Baltic coast has disappeared from the seabed, baffling police and researchers.
The seabed "observatory", worth about €300,000 (£270,000), weighed more than half a tonne. It could not have been dragged off by a storm, tide or large animal, German experts say. Divers only found a torn power cable at the site, 22m (72ft) down and 1.8km (1.2 miles) offshore.
It is a prohibited area, north of Kiel. No boats - not even local fishing boats - are allowed into the area, called Eckernförde Bay, about 70km (44 miles) south of the Danish border.
The missing observatory, installed in late 2016, stopped sending data on 21 August. It consisted of a power unit, connected by cable to the coast, and an instrument unit, which together weighed 770kg (1,700 pounds).
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-49592330