Think about the last time you had something taking up space in your garage; now imagine that thing was a battle tank. In August 2010, Thailand's army took 25 obsolete battle tanks from China and dumped them into the waters of the Gulf of Thailand near Narathiwat province. According to Al Jazeera's report on the event, the tanks were sunk into the water along with 273 obsolete railway cars and 198 scrapped rubbish trucks in order to create new fishing grounds. The idea came when local fishermen in southern Thailand complained to Queen Sirikit about decreasing fish catches after decades of overfishing. The army itself was not very interested in the tanks: they had been purchased second-hand from China in 1987 at a discount and decommissioned in 2004, according to Bangkok Post reporting on the deal. Sinking them was a way to repurpose unused steel.
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