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.
My first thought.
GMTA
These comments are why I’m here heh.
From Blakemore's article:
It remains unclear where exactly the rocket originated, WBAI reported.Alrighty, then. /s
“GMTA”
You had me googling this GMTA.
I got it now.
Exactly my thought!
Which could be construed to mean, what ship launched it.
You give INCREDIBLE latitude to absolutely pathetic, lazy reporting and horribly stupid commentary thereof.
But Ok. /s
Lots of Europe has bomb squads as a standard 4th emergency service along with police, fire, and ambulance. They run across UXO all the time from 19th and 20th Century wars.
I thought GMTA stood for the Georgia Music Teachers Association.
The story says the nosecone was a warhead. In the Sea Sparrow, the warhead was in the after part section behind the fins. The nosecone contained the radar seeker and guidance set.
Just letting people know how they are fired. Something similar was used to launch as the launcher shown, though it may or may not have had several launcher tubes. Not really sure, as I have never really been interested in war machines. They are necessary, but not of deep interest to me. 😋
That’s because Europeans spent so much of the 19th and 20th centuries stealing each other’s stuff and killing each other.
Maine game wardens are charging him with fishing for munitions without a license.
“”Maybe a missile that missed Flight 800 that went awry.””
Count me among the many who will have the same thought! My first thought!
So it was bouncing around in his boat and truck and then the bomb squad guy from the state police put on his helmet and went to work? Keystone cops of Maine?
Notice he’s squatting over the ‘warhead’....................
Those are just to keep your body parts in one place upon detonation.
You think that's unusual Willard? Finding a shell on the beach?
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