Aral Sea pictures

[Sundays_Child]

http://www.99express.com/2009/04/aral-sea-going-dead.html

 

[paulm299]

Gives a new meaning to Ships of the desert . They like to repeat themselves though .

 

[STEVEDUNSTABLE]

reminds me of the begining of close encounters of third kind. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[powerskipper]

Brings a new meaning to ships of the desert.

 

[Refueler]

This is old news in fact - it's not only due to irrigation and man- it has natural reasons as well. One of the problems being that as it shallowed - evaporation speeded up with temp increase etc.

Whole communities were literally destroyed.

 

[fisherman]

How deep was it?

 

[Sundays_Child]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aral_sea

Says it was 102ft in 1989