WW2 bomb prompts evacuations in Portsmouth

[Jimbuna]

Looks like this one has remained undetected all these years! :o

Wouldn't mind betting there are still quite a few out there :hmmm:

Homes and a shopping and leisure centre in Portsmouth have been evacuated after a World War Two German bomb was found.
Trains between Portsmouth and Southsea and Portsmouth Harbour are suspended, and ferry services have been affected.
The device, discovered by a dredging barge on the seabed in Portsmouth Harbour at about 05:00 GMT, is being towed to a detonation site.
Cross-channel ferries to and from Portsmouth were suspended earlier when a 500m exclusion zone was set up.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-37997259

[Commander Wallace]

Looks like this one has remained undetected all these years! :o

Wouldn't mind betting there are still quite a few out there :hmmm:



http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-37997259

Like you said, I'm sure there are others that remain lost. Last week, An Atomic weapon was found off the coast of the border Canada shares with Alaska. The bomb had been missing for the past 60 years.

http://www.infowars.com/unexploded-nuclear-bomb-found-off-canadian-coast/


Hopefully, both can be recovered without any incidence or injuries.

Edit. incidence should have been incidents. Now I have a grammer incident. :03:

[Rhodes]

Like you said, I'm sure there are others that remain lost. Last week, An Atomic weapon was found off the coast of the border Canada shares with Alaska. The bomb had been missing for the past 60 years.

http://www.infowars.com/unexploded-nuclear-bomb-found-off-canadian-coast/


Hopefully, both can be recovered without any incidence or injuries.

And it raises the question: "what do you mean, you lost a A-Bomb?"

[Commander Wallace]

And it raises the question: "what do you mean, you lost a A-Bomb?"

According to the article and news reports, the bomb came from a crashed B-36 bomber that crashed in the area in 1950. Unfortunately, there is a precedence for losing weapons like this when in 1966, a B-52 bomber collided with a KC-135 Tanker during refueling

Quote: The 1966 Palomares B-52 crash, or the Palomares incident, occurred on 17 January 1966, when a B-52G bomber of the United States Air Force's Strategic Air Command collided with a KC-135 tanker during mid-air refuelling at 31,000 feet (9,450 m) over the Mediterranean Sea, off the coast of Spain. The KC-135 was completely destroyed when its fuel load ignited, killing all four crew members.

The B-52G broke apart, killing three of the seven crew members aboard.Of the four Mk28-type hydrogen bombs the B-52G carried, three were found on land near the small fishing village of Palomares in the municipality of Cuevas del Almanzora, Almería, Spain. The non-nuclear explosives in two of the weapons detonated upon impact with the ground, resulting in the contamination of a 2-square-kilometer (490-acre) (0.78 square mile) area by plutonium. The fourth, which fell into the Mediterranean Sea, was recovered intact after a 2½-month-long search.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1966_Palomares_B-52_crash


Interestingly enough, A civilian scientist named John Craven who was working for the U.S Navy, utilized the relatively unknown and unheard of mathematical method, the " Bayesian search theory " which essentially integrates mathematical statistics and probabilities into a search grid.

John Craven used this same method to help find the U.S.S Scorpion, SSN-589, a skipjack class Submarine which disappeared in May 21-27 1968 and was subsequently found months later

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Scorpion_%28SSN-589%29

[Jimbuna]

Like you said, I'm sure there are others that remain lost. Last week, An Atomic weapon was found off the coast of the border Canada shares with Alaska. The bomb had been missing for the past 60 years.

http://www.infowars.com/unexploded-nuclear-bomb-found-off-canadian-coast/


Hopefully, both can be recovered without any incidence or injuries.

One helluva story to tell the grandchildren "Old gramps went looking for sea cucumbers and came across a nuke" :o

[Commander Wallace]

One helluva story to tell the grandchildren "Old gramps went looking for sea cucumbers and came across a nuke" :o

It's a great story, no doubt. The fish that got away for 60 years now found ? I don't think anyone will be able to top that one. :D


Then again, they are still finding and discovering long lost ship wrecks and Navy ships including U boats. Jace11 in thread

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?p=2446934#post2446934 had mentioned something similar regarding WW2 Danish shipwrecks.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-37997640


Apologies if this post was a bit of a derailment of the thread.

[Oberon]

Speaking of stuff that's gone walkabout, it seems that a couple of Dutch shipwrecks have vanished:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-37997640

[Commander Wallace]

Speaking of stuff that's gone walkabout, it seems that a couple of Dutch shipwrecks have vanished:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-37997640


It seems I already posted that link which was a re-post of thread of Jace11 in thread post # 6 of this thread.

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...34#post2446934 (http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?p=2446934#post2446934) had mentioned something similar regarding WW2 Danish shipwrecks.



http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-37997640

[Jimbuna]

Speaking of stuff that's gone walkabout, it seems that a couple of Dutch shipwrecks have vanished:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-37997640

Oh bugga, just noticed this post of yours Chris after having created a separate thread on the subject.

Should I join the two are are you happy I leave both alone?

[Oberon]

I'm alright to leave be, is no problem. :shucks:

[Jimbuna]

I'm alright to leave be, is no problem. :shucks:

No problem Jamie and apologies for mixing you up with AVG/Chris, you both ahve the same avatars :oops::)

[eddie]

Looks like we have a WWII bomb discovered over here too Jim! Wonder where the darn thing came from?

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/careful-wwii-bomb-uncovered-in-florida/ar-AAkomdY?li=BBnbfcL#image=1

[Jimbuna]

Most importantly....nobody hurt.

[eddie]

That's for sure Jim, glad no one was hurt in both cases!:up:

[GoldenRivet]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Richard_Montgomery

what about the Richard Montgomery wreck?

Rumor has it that the explosive cargo aboard it becomes more and more unstable with the passage of time. it is estimated that should the wreck explode it would be a blast equivalent to the force of some 1500 tons of TNT

I would hate to own property on the waterfront should something happen there

also... on another note, and please forgive my ignorance, but i noticed a daily mail article quotes a man as saying "‘I’ve lived here all my life and not a day goes by when I don’t think about what will happen if that b***er blows.’"

i assume the word edited with the three asterisks is "Bugger" - is this considered to be that much of a risque word in 'cross the pond parlance that it warrants asterisk marks?