Huntington Harbor main channel with Seal Beach Naval Weapons Station in background
Posted on 01/11/2006 11:34:51 AM PST by Yaelle
There's a story linked in post #11.
Blasting caps, if I'm not mistaken. Unusual, but not unheard of. I found a whole box of them when I was 14, hiking around the hills near my home. There was a mine up there that had been open in the late 40's and these were left behind.
Lucky for me I had seen something about blasting caps on the TV, so I left them there and told my dad. He called the county sheriffs, who blew them up on site.
Thanks. They really made it sound more ominous on the radio, even as they breezed past it. Could have been from someone's NYE celebration, I guess.
http://www2.californiacoastline.org/cgi-bin/image.cgi?image=8482&mode=big&lastmode=sequential&flags=0&year=2002
Seal Beach Weapons Depot....missle cruisers come in and deposit their nuclear weapons prior to going to port.
Long Beach Shipyard has been gone a long time now.
They're probably following some damn car chase instead.
That's because it's the media, who can't tell a squib from a SADM. :-)
I suspect that there may be more to the story though. In the pic, they're sending down divers. Divers, to recover blasting caps? Maybe to see if there's something else down there? More info needed.
Odd happenings are routine and have always gone on; however, you're simply HEARING about more of them because there's now a cadre of people on the internet LOOKING for them and very quickly spreading word of them, something that wasn't happening much before 9/11 and wasn't happening at all before the internet.
At least on the East Coast, at the end of World War II, a lot of naval ships simply dumped huge amounts of ammo, explosives, etc. overboard, in many cases quite close to the beach.
No idea if that happened on the West Coast (and of course it gets a lot deeper faster offshore there.)
But off Delaware a coastal resort replenished its beach by pumping sand from a couple miles offshore. The sand turned out to be filled with live 40mm AAA rounds, and they started turning up left and right.
This Thread is all over the place:
Missles over LAX
Chinese (Cosco) taking over L.A. Harbor
How about we stay on topic. Blasting Caps found in HH. OK! What else?
Huntington Harbor main channel with Seal Beach Naval Weapons Station in background
Blasting caps are usually made with a thin aluminum casing. Any that had been in the ocean for sixty years would have likely corroded into nonexistance by now. They're small things- a little larger than the cap off a ball point pen.
LBNS got cut in 1996. Coincidentally enough, they don't have a toll on the Vincent Thomas Bridge anymore.
BREAKING NEWS
Several small explosive devices have been found in the waters of Huntington Harbor near Bonaire Circle, and various law enforcement agencies with divers are on the scene trying to remove them.
Reportedly, two blasting caps were found by a Harbor Association diver, and the caps are "very unstable in salt water."
Check back for more. We will update this story as more details become available.
Several pounds? Several types? Several what?
The story so far is that two blasting caps were found. By itself, that is not a big deal.
Sorry, I missed the "blasting caps" description. Emily Litella moment.
Left over from some fishermen visiting from Loiusiana?
'Hercules Spinners'. < grin >
are they as good as Dupont Greentail Fly's??? 8^)
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