Posted on 04/14/2023 5:56:35 AM PDT by Red Badger
A lobsterman says he pulled in a surprising catch Monday while fishing 20 miles off the coast of Maine.
Captain Cameron Pease of Cushing, Maine, discovered a five-foot military rocket tangled in his trawler’s rope Monday afternoon, WABI reported. Pease notified a local warden Tuesday, who contacted the Maine State Police Bomb Squad to detonate the 150-pound weapon.
Maine State Police
on Wednesday
On Tuesday, April 11, 2023 at approximately 9:00 am, Maine State Police Bomb Squad Commander Patrick Pescitelli received notification that a lobsterman based out of Cushing had pulled up an approximate 5ft. long military rocket about 20 miles off shore. The individual brought the item to shore and contacted authorities the next day. Commander Pescitelli and Bomb Technician Keith Barton responded to analyze the item which was identified as a MK29 Mod-0. With x-ray imaging, the... See more
Members of the bomb squad dispatched to analyze the rocket identified it as a MK29 Mod-0, according to a press release from Maine State Police. Bomb squad technicians used x-ray imaging to examine the rocket but were not able to determine if it held any explosive material, authorities said.
Technicians received guidance from a mobile Navy bomb disposal unit to safely disarm and dispose of the rocket, the press release continued.
The fisherman was fortunate the rocket didn’t explode as it moved around in his boat and again in his truck bed on its way to Pease’s home Monday night, authorities told WABI.
“They ended up doing an X-ray on it and found that everything in the tip was all there and attached,” Pease told the outlet.
“It still should have been able to go off, so they used another small dynamite piece and triggered off another one,” he added. “They said there was 3 to 5lbs. of explosives in the top of it, so I’m not sure how much did not go off being under water for a good 20 years. On the top of the missile, it said it had expired in 2003 so, who knows how long it had been down since before then.”
It remains unclear where exactly the rocket originated, WBAI reported.
Maybe a missile that missed Flight 800 that went awry.
That sucker would go right back down to Davy Jones locker. Dont mess with ordinance of any kind! Alls they would get from me it GPS of where I dropped it like a hot potato!
Here on Florida Gulf Coast they find bombs and such from WWII all the time...................
IIRC the Mark 29 is actually the launching system for the Sea Sparrow missile, not the missile itself.
But I defer to USN missileers.
From WIKI:
The MK29 Mod-0 is an anti-surface, passive acoustic torpedo developed in the 1940s and used by the United States Air Force, assault ships and destroyers.1 It is equipped with a Nose Fuze Mk 29 which functions on impact with no delay
That haul was da bomb!
From WIKI:
The MK29 Mod-0 is an anti-surface, passive acoustic torpedo developed in the 1940s and used by the United States Air Force, assault ships and destroyers.1 It is equipped with a Nose Fuze Mk 29 which functions on impact with no delay
The MK29 Mod-0 rocket is an anti-surface, passive acoustic torpedo that was developed in the 1940s.
Had it gone off, it would have rurnt his whole day................
ALYSSA BLAKEMORE is an idiot.
This one was from WWII era............................
A very pretty one.................
Germany is laden with UXO from World War II. For every ton of explosives dropped on Britain, 350 were dropped on Germany. About two-thirds incendiaries.
Probably not knowledgeable about ordinance, but not obviously stupid.
Yep. Any where there’s a naval installation on the coast there’s more than likely some ordinance in the water somewhere.
They found a bunch off the NAS seawall in the St. John’s river about 10 yearsago.
Back in the 90s a large cache of aviation gages complete with radium dials from WWII were discovered buried next to the river.
Who knows what leached into the water.
Heck, about ten or so years ago, after a big tropical storm, they found a cache of cannonballs from the Civil War on the beach!...................
Savanah Georgia residents would not be pleased to know what is embedded in the mud bottom of the Savanah River…
I believe it.
Trying to talk the wife into letting me have a metal detector.......no telling what gets uncovered after hurricanes and nor’easter’s.
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