Accompanied by two members of the press, the team of North Sea Wrecks set sail with the research vessel Heincke for another trip to wrecks in the German Bight (HE613, February 20-24, 2023). The goal was to take samples directly at the wreck of the SMS Mainz together with the AWI divers and to fish around the SMS Ariadne. Unfortunately, the weather was once again a problem for the NSW team. The divers were able to approach the wreck, but after the last storm days the visibility near the bottom was so bad that the sampling by the divers had to be aborted. The work on the SMS Ariadne was more successful. Here, enough fish could be caught, whose samples can now be analyzed in the laboratories of AWI and Kiel University.
Matthias Brenner, AWI
@pictures: AWi/Ute Marx