Dutch divers still haul up debris six years after container spill

Volunteer Dutch divers are still fishing debris from the North Sea six years after a disastrous shipping accident.

They are trying to clear the shallow Wadden Sea where the MSC Zoe -- one of the world's largest cargo ships -- lost hundreds of containers of car parts, televisions, light bulbs, furniture and toys in a 2019 storm.

Despite clean-up efforts, debris still litters the seabed of the UNESCO-listed tidal wetland, which spans the coasts of the Netherlands, Germany and Denmark.

On a grey summer day they "salvaged a set of nets and debris and also I think it was electrical cables, probably from the MSC Zoe," volunteer Harold Batteram, 67, told AFP, his diving suit covered with little wriggling crustaceans.

The spill also released organic peroxide, a toxic and highly flammable chemi