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Aug 20, 2026

Century-old steam tugboat emerges from Serbia's Sava River as drought dries European waterways

The wreck of a steam tugboat from the early 1900s, known as the Slovenian or 'Sava's Titanic,' has surfaced from the Sava River near Sremska Mitrovica, Serbia, as extreme heat and drought cause rivers across Europe to reach record low levels.

Aug 20, 2026·5 sources
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  • ▪Falling waters along the Danube River on the Serbia-Romania border exposed rusty, weapon-laden German warships from Nazi Germany's Black Sea fleet.
  • ▪Receding Danube waters in Bulgaria allowed researchers to recover well-preserved bone fragments, including a jawbone and tusks, from an extinct woolly mammoth.
  • ▪Serbian hydrology expert Dejan Vladikovic stated that the 2026 drought resulted from a lack of winter snow combined with a very dry spring.

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