Also a common problem in Croatia from the war in the 90s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minefields_in_Croatia
It was a bit unnerving seeing all the signage in the hills above Dubrovnik when I visited.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minefields_in_Croatia
It was a bit unnerving seeing all the signage in the hills above Dubrovnik when I visited.
"The southern Adriatic Sea has represented a major dumping area of war residues of both conventional and chemical weapons for almost a hundred years"
http://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=64f53412f4d84603b277...
In the case of the Irish Sea, which was the main MoD dump since around 1920, 14,600 tons of Phosgene, and by 1949 the RAF alone had dumped 137,000 tons. It ceased being used in 1973. [1]
In the Baltic fishermen catch upto 3 tons of munitions each year.
BP turned up quite bit of unexploded ordnance while exploring for their now infamous Gulf of Mexico rig.
[1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1488371/MoD-dumped-mu...
[2] http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/world-war-ii-muni...
[3] http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/09/28/14141378-world-wa...