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Originally Posted by Blacklight
I'd imagine that there are still hundreds of those dangerous things still out there floating in or under the sea in those areas that have yet to be found. Makes me wonder if any have ever broken free from their anchors and if there are any out there just wandering the ocean currents just waiting for something to hit it.
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Ohhh! Loads broke free! They exploded on the beaches not far from me when they
washed up. Almost every town here has a deactivated mine that washed ashore,
usualy converted into a charity box. Mostly 1st world war ones.
Plenty more mines where deployed without anchors.
I have no idea if it was used at all, but there was a self deactivating trigger invented
before the 1st world war. It used a chemical reaction to disarm the trigger after sevral
years in sea water or when the anchor broke.