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A diver was looking for sea cucumbers. He may have found a long-lost nuclear bomb instead.
The Washington Compost ^ | 11/10/2016 | Amy B Wang

Posted on 11/10/2016 10:38:54 AM PST by LonePalm

The water conditions were perfect — “beautiful, clear, green” — when Sean Smyrichinsky went diving last month off the north coast of British Columbia.

The 45-year-old Canadian had joined two friends for a three-week fishing expedition. Setting off on his own one day, Smyrichinsky went searching for sea cucumbers that their small crew could harvest the following day.

Using a DPV, or a diver propulsion vehicle, Smyrichinsky plunged 25 to 30 feet down into the bay.

Ahead of him, a mysterious object emerged.

“And I thought, what a cool rock formation,” he said. “It’s perfectly round.”

As he approached the formation, Smyrichinsky discovered it wasn’t a rock, but something that appeared man-made.

It was perfectly round, he noted, with circles and bowls “the size of basketballs” cut into it.

He rushed back to the surface to tell his friends, boat captain Richard Hamilton and fellow diver Chrissy Anderson, about the bizarre object he had spotted. [snip]


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aviation; canada; diving
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Well, well, well.

"Ceterum censeo Hillary esse delendam."

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)

LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

1 posted on 11/10/2016 10:38:54 AM PST by LonePalm
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To: ASA Vet; magslinger; darkwing104; 2ndDivisionVet; rocksblues; NY Attitude; Old Sarge; ...
Old Crow Ping

Please let me know if you want on or off the Old Crow ping list.

OK, not exactly an Old Crow topic but I thought you would find this interesting.

"Ceterum censeo Clinton esse delendam."

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)

LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

2 posted on 11/10/2016 10:40:43 AM PST by LonePalm (Commander and Chef)
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To: LonePalm

Offshore of what island?


3 posted on 11/10/2016 10:40:56 AM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: LonePalm

She sells nuclear bombs by the seashore. Doesn’t have the same ring to it.


4 posted on 11/10/2016 10:41:43 AM PST by Telepathic Intruder (The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
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To: LonePalm

Anderson cooper? ;-)


5 posted on 11/10/2016 10:43:29 AM PST by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE
Not sure but the diver lives in Courtenay, B.C., Canada.

"Ceterum censeo Hillary esse delendam."

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)

LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

6 posted on 11/10/2016 10:44:09 AM PST by LonePalm (Commander and Chef)
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To: LonePalm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1950_British_Columbia_B-36_crash


7 posted on 11/10/2016 10:45:42 AM PST by RitchieAprile
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To: LonePalm

And you can have it back for One..Million..Dollars.


8 posted on 11/10/2016 10:47:51 AM PST by MUDDOG
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To: LonePalm

Sea Cucumbers? It sounds like a name for something else, like Mountain Oysters.


9 posted on 11/10/2016 10:48:08 AM PST by lee martell
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To: LonePalm; Former Proud Canadian; JudyinCanada
Since when have we been trying to nuke the Canadians? I mean,of course they deserve it but...
10 posted on 11/10/2016 10:48:14 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Deplorables' Lives Matter)
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To: LonePalm

I wonder what the limit is on those?


11 posted on 11/10/2016 10:48:28 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: LonePalm

He could have been a powerful nuclear power.


12 posted on 11/10/2016 10:49:00 AM PST by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

Try ‘a-bombs”. Same flow, but you still lose the alliteration.


13 posted on 11/10/2016 10:51:17 AM PST by PLMerite (Lord, let me die fighting lions. Amen.)
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To: LonePalm
Here's a pic of one of those cucumbers, which had been growing alongside the nuke:


14 posted on 11/10/2016 10:53:21 AM PST by mbarker12474
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To: PLMerite

Poetic license makes for bad bad science. Nuclear is correct, atomic is not.


15 posted on 11/10/2016 10:54:55 AM PST by FredZarguna (And what Rough Beast, its hour come round at last, slouches toward Fifth Avenue to be born?)
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To: LonePalm
Sea cucumber:

Mk4 Nuclear Bomb:

No contest.

16 posted on 11/10/2016 10:55:41 AM PST by PLMerite (Lord, let me die fighting lions. Amen.)
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To: LonePalm
"A diver was looking for sea cucumbers."

Uh huh.

Popeye would kick his butt if he tried a pick-up line like that.

17 posted on 11/10/2016 10:55:47 AM PST by humblegunner
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To: lee martell
Aptly named:


18 posted on 11/10/2016 10:56:23 AM PST by FredZarguna (And what Rough Beast, its hour come round at last, slouches toward Fifth Avenue to be born?)
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To: LonePalm

I thought those things were deadly poisonous?


19 posted on 11/10/2016 11:02:30 AM PST by farming pharmer (www.sterlingheightsreport.com)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE

Was found in the vicinity of The Queen Charlotte Islands, also known as Haida Gwaii.

Queen Charlotte was Englands’ Black Queen.

(I did not know that.)


20 posted on 11/10/2016 11:03:17 AM PST by conserv8
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