Word: gotland
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...dangerous occupations. Some 24,000 fishermen around the world die each year, and millions more are injured in weather- and equipment-related accidents. In the Baltic, though, there is another hazard - about 35,000 tons of chemical munitions sunk by the Russians near Bornholm and the Swedish island of Gotland, west of Latvia, in the late 1940s. More - sealed on German warships - was sunk by Britain and the U.S. in the deep waters of the Skagerrak, an arm of the North Sea, and in the Norwegian Sea. Over time, some of the weapons in the relatively shallow Baltic - blister agents...