Poland is buying almost 1,000 tanks, more than 600 pieces of artillery and dozens of fighter jets from South Korea, in part to replace equipment donated to Ukraine to help Kyiv fight the Russian invasion, the Polish Ministry of Defense told CNN on Tuesday.
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Is the 19th-century Champagne on the bottom of the Baltic Sea still fit for a toast?
The shipwreck was discovered in the Baltic Sea, about 20 nautical miles off the Swedish coast, by a team of Polish technical divers from the group Baltictech.
A team of divers discovered a 19th-century shipwreck off the coast of Sweden that was “loaded to the sides” with historical artifacts including 100 bottles of champagne. The shipwreck was discovered in the Baltic Sea, about 20 nautical miles off the Swedish coast, by a team of Polish technical divers from the group Baltictech. “We encountered a 19th-century sailing ship in very good condition, loaded to the sides with champagne, wine, mineral water and porcelain,” Baltictech diver Tomasz Stachura said in a press release this week.
Sunken sailing ship "loaded to the sides" with alcohol and mineral water off the Swedish coast, according to Polish diving group
The National Weather Service issued a weather alert at 6:54 p.m. on Wednesday for strong thunderstorms until 7:15 p.m. for Oneida County.
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The chief scientist for the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory says Tuesdays event at Biscuit Basin might be spectacular but is not unheard of.
A surprise eruption in Yellowstone National Park shot steam, water and dark-colored rock and dirt high into the sky Tuesday and sent sightseers running for safety.The hydrothermal explosion happened around 10 a.m. in Biscuit Basin, a collection of hot springs a couple miles north of the famous Old Faithful Geyser.Video posted online showed a couple dozen people watching from a boardwalk as the eruption sprayed and grew in front of them. As water and debris began to fall, they ran to keep clear, some yelling Back up!” and Holy cow! People then turned to watch the spectacle under a huge cloud of steam.No injuries were reported, but the Biscuit Basin area was closed for visitor safety. The eruption damaged a boardwalk that keeps people off Yellowstones fragile and often dangerous geothermal areas.Vlada March was on a tour in the basin when her guide said something unusual was happening. March started taking video.We saw more steam coming up and within seconds it became this huge thing, said March, a California real estate agent who was with her mom, husband and their two kids. It just exploded and became like a black cloud that covered the sun.I think our tour guide said Run, and I started running and I started screaming at the kids, Run, run, run, and I continued filming what I could, she said.Rocks that fell from the sky smashed the boardwalk they had been walking on. March’s mom, who had been sitting on a bench near the explosion, was shaken and dirty but otherwise fine, she said.Walking back on the broken boardwalk was a little scary, she said, but thankfully it didnt break under us.Photos and video of the aftermath showed damaged guardrails and boards covered in rock and silt near muddy pools.The explosion could have resulted from a clogged passageway in the extensive natural plumbing network that underlies Yellowstone’s world-famous geysers, hot springs and other thermal features, said scientist Mike Poland with the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory.A clog would have caused a buildup of heat and pressure such as happens inside a pressure cooker, he said, until the water suddenly flashed to steam, causing an instantaneous and huge expansion in volume and triggering the explosion.After viewing video from the event Poland estimated that the explosion sent material about 100 feet (30 meters) into the air.He said the explosion was on the big side of eruptions that occur periodically usually when no one is around let alone throngs of tourists.On occasion they get much bigger: The largest known crater from a hydrothermal explosion on Earth is in Yellowstone and measures 1.5 miles across, Poland said. Scientists theorize that a series of hydrothermal explosions created that crater some 13,800 years ago in the Mary Bay area on the northeastern side of Yellowstone Lake.By comparison, the crater from Tuesday’s explosion will likely be measured in feet, Poland said.What we saw today was spectacular and definitely hazardous. But on the scale of what the Yellowstone system has done in the past, it was relatively small, he said. Its a very good reminder of an under appreciated hazard in Yellowstone.The explosion happened in or near Black Diamond Pool, a 120-foot-log hot pool that is the basins widest thermal feature.A National Park Service aerial photo taken afterward showed the pool somewhat enlarged near the boardwalk compared to recent satellite images and its water turned a muddy beige. The deep Sapphire Pool about 100 yards away retained its usual blue hues.Park geologists were investigating what specifically happened in this case.Similar blasts have happened in Biscuit Basin in 2009, 1991 and after the magnitude 7.2 Hebgen Lake earthquake 40 miles away in 1959.Yellowstone is centered on a huge, dormant volcano. The hydrothermal explosion did not indicate new activity within the volcanic system, which remains at normal levels, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.At least 22 people are known to have died from injuries related to thermal features in and around the 3,471-square-mile national park since 1890.Visitors are warned to stay on the boardwalks and trails in thermal areas, where some of the pools and springs have a thin, breakable crust covering the scalding and sometimes acidic water.___Hanson reported from Helena, Montana, and Brown reported from Billings, Montana.
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