This brief article discusses the matter of iron and steel shipwrecks in the context of the remains of vessel SS Stuttgart, and its environmental research conducted by scientists from Maritime Institute in Gdańsk. Her shipwreck is on the Polish list of 28 wrecks being treated for environmental reasons in the Polish part of South Baltic. At the present SS Stuttgart is most dangerous sunken object on the Polish coast. She was taking part in the 2nd World War. As such they are interesting objects which can be used in the studies of underwater archaeology of the contemporary past. The authors focus on their possible use in archaeology of the data obtained during oceanographic and hydrographic research.
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