What if I told you that you could once walk on dry land from Britain to mainland Europe? Or that, despite being home to some of the roughest and busiest shipping lanes on Earth, its average depth is so shallow that the Eiffel Tower would easily stick out above the waves? Welcome to the North Sea, a body of water often envisioned as just a cold, empty gr…
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