Technically, almost all of Antarctica is located north of the south pole

A 6th grader’s literacy level means they can write a book report.

Or - bear with me here - it’s just a funny detail and people are laughing about it. Because any sea is obviously going to be north of it

Nope. You could as well say: Mediterranean Sea, north of Antarctica.

I have two dollars, less than infinity.

The temperature is pleasant, higher than absolute zero.

Doesn't add anything. There are no seas south of Antarctica.

Weddell sea is good, mentioning Antarctica is good, the word “North” is meaningless in this context which is what the OP is laughing about.

You're not wrong, you're just insufferable.

It is still valid to point out that "north of Antartica" is a silly phrase in context, even though it's fine given the more specific Weddell Sea information. If you did want to help readers know the story based on a more well-known landmark, a less silly phrase would have been simply been "Weddell Sea, near Antarctica".

show me which part of Weddell Sea isn’t North of Antarctica

I would snarkily, rhetorically, ask if people are even taught how to diagram out a sentence structure anymore, but I already know the answer is ‘not really, no’, because the average adult American literacy level is that of a 6th grader.

I agree with your overall statement. Just wanted to point out that there are a lot more people than Americans out there.

While you're not wrong, you're also massively over-analyzing and "WELL AKSHULLY"ing what appears to be a silly one-liner, not a serious attempted dunk on the article.

Yup, by naming Wedell, they located it quite well; there are 13 small named seas completely encircling Antarctica. By naming any of them, you can reasonably locate (to any point that matters to dear reader) the wreck

a fun fact about this, by the way

the reason we scavenge steel from old shipwrecks is because all modern peoduced steel is contaminated with a miniscule - but still present - amount of radioactive isotopes, incompatible with some incredibly precise scientific instruments and other nieche, but essential applications, that not only require old steel, but old steel that wasn't exposed to all the radioactive fallout during the nuclear tests in the cold war, hence why the sunken ships.

wikipedia article

adding a personal note here, if some nuclear tests around the world contaminated everything THIS MUCH, what will we say about microplastics in a couple decades? just food for thought

3000 meters is pretty fucking deep.