Rubber bales bounce along SA coast after 80 years on seabed

Storm surge ‘rips the guts’ out of World War 2 wreck

31 October 2023 - 17:29

Hundreds of giant rubber bales stuck in a shipwreck 2km underwater for the past 80 years are washing up along the Eastern Cape coastline, possibly as a result of a storm surge that lashed the coast in mid-September...

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