WWII ships from Battle of Iwo Jima raised by volcanic activity, seismic shifts

[polycaster]

I understand the main point of the article is that the ships were lifted due to vulcanic activity. Still, as this creates the image of graves being lifted:

„To be clear, these ships aren't victims of a battle; instead, the U.S. Navy intentionally scuttled them at the location in 1945 after taking the island in an attempt to create an artificial breakwater for a planned harbor. Several of them are reinforced concrete barges, ships built to support naval operations and not necessarily for any direct combat role.”

https://www.thedrive.com/news/42802/volcanic-activity-lifts-...

[bigbaguette]

In Tulamben on the East coast of Bali you can find the opposite: the submerged wreck of a ship that's never been sunk: the USAT Liberty.

She's been torpedoed by a Japanese submarine during WWII but stayed afloat. As she was getting towed towards the nearest shipyard, she was taking on too much water and she's been beached to save her cargo and fittings as she was not deemed repairable.

21 years later, an eruption of Mount Agung produced tremors that made the ship slip off the beach, down to the ocean, where she lies now on a sand slope, turning the location into an amazing diving spot!

Nowadays, each time the volcano shakes the island a bit, the water around turns red for a couple days

[tokai]

Poseidon getting the help of Hephaestus to claim the oceans rightful bounty.

[alleycat5000]

Here's a interesting talk on the underlying volcano and uplift.

https://youtu.be/SPmT0aS0pK4

[geenew]

It's strange and sad how, to me, at least, WW2 artifacts like these are moving from the category of items representing the time we live in to items representing the distant past, like wrecks of wooden frigates. ~80 years is a long time.

[1MachineElf]

I hadn't realized seismic shifts and volcanic activity could cause a land upheaval so spontaneously.

As I was reading HP Lovecraft's Dagon[0] I wondered whether or not such a thing were possible - most of the story takes place on that type of terrain.

[0] https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/d.aspx

[sintaxi]

Lake Titicaca in Peru which is 12,500 feet above sea level and it sits in a sedimentary basin that was apparently below sea level at some time in the past since the lake is made up of diluted salt water.

[xwdv]

Land: They’re making more of it.

[nathancahill]

That's the joke in Hawaii. More beach front property by the minute.

[missedthecue]

In fact, the world has gained a net 13,565 square kilometers (5,237 square miles) of land since 1985, according to satellite data.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-climatechange-coasts-idUS...