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Headline : Aerial images of the Sunken Ships of Sakhalin, Russia
Caption : Russian drone photographer Lana Sator has captured these aerial images of sunken ships that scatter the coast of Sakhalin Island and Sovetskaya Gavan, a far flung industrial area located in the North Pacific Ocean, north of Japan. These large ocean going vessels would have been used in the transportation of industrial materials, but years of wear and tear have taken their toll and the ships eventually become unseaworthy, finding a final resting place along the coast of this desolate looking landscape.

Sator explains: ‘’Decommissioned large ships are much easier to scrap in the winter, when they are frozen solid in ice.

“In Spring, everything that could not be salvaged becomes what we see in these pictures, which can only be seen from a considerable height.”
Describing their huge size, she adds: “The length of the hull of some of these ships can measure over an impressive 100 metres long.’’

The eerie looking outlines of the vessels can be seen from the air, resting below the surface. Others are semi-submerged and others appear almost skeletal along the shoreline.
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