Contaminated sites in the Bay of Kiel

More than 75 years after the end of the Second World War, there are still thousands of tonnes of various munitions in the Baltic Sea. The danger to people and the environment remains dramatic.

The Kiel Munition Clearance Week, a combined face-to-face and online conference, was attended by numerous representatives from politics, science and technical experts. Domestic and foreign experts met to listen to highly interesting presentations and, most importantly, to hold technical discussions. The question of how close the conference was to the real problem of munitions in the sea can be answered briefly and simply: Very close, in some cases only a few hundred metres away!