Musseling in on Shipwrecks
Clip: Season 1 Episode 23 | 10m 28sVideo has Closed Captions
Invasive mussels are hastening the deterioration of historic Great Lakes shipwrecks.
There are thousands of shipwrecks in the Great Lakes, like the wreck of the Prins Willem V, which sank shortly after leaving Milwaukee in 1954. When the Prins Willem went to the bottom, there were no quagga mussels in Lake Michigan, but now there are an estimated 4.5 trillion, and the mussels are hastening the deterioration of the wrecks.
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Musseling in on Shipwrecks
Clip: Season 1 Episode 23 | 10m 28sVideo has Closed Captions
There are thousands of shipwrecks in the Great Lakes, like the wreck of the Prins Willem V, which sank shortly after leaving Milwaukee in 1954. When the Prins Willem went to the bottom, there were no quagga mussels in Lake Michigan, but now there are an estimated 4.5 trillion, and the mussels are hastening the deterioration of the wrecks.
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Clip: S1 Ep23 | 7m 21s | Scientists team up to try to protect an important reef from invasive quagga mussels. (7m 21s)
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Clip: S1 Ep23 | 7m 9s | Can we protect shipwrecks from the damage caused by invasive mussels? We ask the experts. (7m 9s)
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