From a friend, who finds such items: “Have you ever wanted to walk across the bottom of the River, Lake  or Ocean to see all the ships that have sunk?  Well…. The  Aral Sea was once the world’s fourth-largest saline body of  water. It has been steadily shrinking since the 1960s, after  the rivers that fed it were diverted by Soviet Union irrigation  projects. And now it’s almost gone leaving a desert full of  old shipwrecks.” Is recovery likely?

Ships High and Dry Aral Sea
Camels seeking shelter near dry boat