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How is leaving steel anchors at the bottom of the ocean is not harmful to the environment?

April 26, 2017anchors earth Geology leaving Mathematics ocean sciences steel

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How is leaving steel anchors at the bottom of the ocean is not harmful to the environment?

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Well, you could posit that it’s marginally harmful, but in the greater scheme of things, it’s trivial: Steel anchors are going to degrade very slowly. Iron and nickel aren’t terribly dangerous in low concentrations. The total number of anchors lost in the oceans is very small.