Divers begin defusing huge unexploded WW2 bomb

Gerald · 10-13-20, 02:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Aktungbby

Weird!

No
sooner do I casually mention an obscure thing: person, place, event etc. than it becomes a real news matter??! Freaks out my wife with whom, while watching an old 12 O'clock high TV episode Sunday night, I had discussed the Tallboy attacks from Lancasters vs puny B-17 loads, later prompting my comment in Who What Where thread...

Small world!

mapuc · 10-13-20, 04:06 PM

A positive sidenote must be the bomb was under 12 meters of water-which must have increased the damage the bomb may have created if it was on land.

Markus

Jimbuna · 10-14-20, 05:00 AM

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Originally Posted by mapuc

A positive sidenote must be the bomb was under 12 meters of water-which must have increased the damage the bomb may have created if it was on land.

Markus

Very true and especially knowing what one of them did to Tirpitz.

Jimbuna · 10-14-20, 05:03 AM

Gerald · 10-14-20, 05:56 AM

Quite a powerful underwater bang.

Jimbuna · 10-14-20, 06:02 AM

Aye at 12,000 lb hardly surprising.

Platapus · 10-14-20, 06:37 AM

Looks like they were trying to burn the bomb, which is a legitimate way of rendering it safe.

10-14-20, 05:03 AM	#4
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 191,193 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	__________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

10-14-20, 05:56 AM	#5
Gerald SUBSIM Newsman Join Date: May 2008 Location: Close to sea Posts: 24,254 Downloads: 553 Uploads: 0	Quite a powerful underwater bang. __________________ Nothing in life is to be feard,it is only to be understood. Marie Curie

10-14-20, 06:02 AM	#6
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 191,193 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	Aye at 12,000 lb hardly surprising. __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

10-14-20, 06:37 AM	#7
Platapus Fleet Admiral Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 19,413 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 0	Looks like they were trying to burn the bomb, which is a legitimate way of rendering it safe. __________________ abusus non tollit usum - A right should NOT be withheld from people on the basis that some tend to abuse that right.

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10-13-20, 04:06 PM	#2
mapuc CINC Pacific Fleet Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Denmark Posts: 20,596 Downloads: 37 Uploads: 0	A positive sidenote must be the bomb was under 12 meters of water-which must have increased the damage the bomb may have created if it was on land. Markus