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Moss-green algae cloaks the weathered concrete of a partially submerged WWII bunker as it creates perfect reflections in the still waters of a tidal pool near Arcachon Basin. This remnant of the Atlantic Wall defensive system, constructed by the German military between 1942 and 1944, now serves as both a somber historical monument and an inadvertent artificial reef where marine life thrives among the estimated 15,000 similar structures that stretch from Norway to Spain—silent sentinels slowly being reclaimed by the natural world they were once built to command.
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Moss-green algae cloaks the weathered concrete of a partially submerged WWII bunker as it creates perfect reflections in the still waters of a tidal pool near Arcachon Basin. This remnant of the Atlantic Wall defensive system, constructed by the German military between 1942 and 1944, now serves as both a somber historical monument and an inadvertent artificial reef where marine life thrives among the estimated 15,000 similar structures that stretch from Norway to Spain—silent sentinels slowly being reclaimed by the natural world they were once built to command.