Caption says: The bridge (or should it be called tunnel) goes under water to allow movement of ships. In order for ships to pass, this bridge is half under the water. You drive down in the water and then come out on the other side. Truly a marvelous piece of engineering!! This bridge is between Sweden and Denmark. Picture taken from the side of Sweden.
Upon googling for more information about this bridge, I realised that there doesn’t exist such a bridge linking Sweden to Denmark at all. Nope, it is not a digitally manipulated photo though, because this bridge does exist in another part of the world.
This bridge, called Monitor-Merrimac Memorial Bridge-Tunnel (or MMMBT for short), is a 4.6-mile long combination bridge-tunnel system connecting two Virginia communities across the mouth of the James River. MMMBT opened in April 1992 after seven years of construction and a total cost of about $400 million.
A further search online reveals that there is actually a similar bridge-tunnel linking Sweden to Denmark. Oresund Link (name of the bridge), comprises a 10-mile link between Copenhagen and Malmo, and won the IABSE Outstanding Structure Award in May 2003.
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