Posted on 04/04/2021 6:17:14 AM PDT by SheepWhisperer
Naval mine washed ashore in Lauderdale-By-The-Sea
Pic at link
...though to rough to be out there lat night and this morning.
Happy Easter
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https://www.local10.com/news/local/2021/04/04/naval-mine-washes-ashore-in-lauderdale-by-the-sea/
Actually, if it goes off in deep enough water, it might make the best fishing haul ever.
LMBO
You KNOW there were dolphin under it when it was at sea!
But dang, I see it now...
“Hey look, flotsam at 30° off the port bow! Let’s troll by it”
...then let’s poop out board shorts as we troll near it.
Just day um!
Best fishing story ever though.
“Hey, remember that day we caught our limit when the mine exploded?”
I wonder if Flipper pushed it to shore to save Bud and Chip?
The US Army Air Force and Royal Air Force dropped 2.7 million tons of bombs on Europe during World War II.[1] In the United Kingdom, the German Luftwaffe dropped more than 12,000 metric tons of bombs on London alone.[2] The British Ministry of Defence reported that 450 World War II bombs were made safe or defused since 2010 by disposal teams.[3] Every year, an estimated 2,000 tons of World War II munitions are found in Germany, at times requiring the evacuation of tens of thousands of residents from their homes.[1] In Berlin alone, 1.8 million pieces of ordnance have been defused since 1947.[4] Buried bombs, as well as mortars, land mines and grenades, are often found during construction work or other excavations, or by farmers tilling the land
“INERT”.
I would’ve hauled it home.
A company I used to work for is based near Newark, NJ. The plant is on the grounds of a WWI munitions plant. When I was there, it wasn’t unusual for them to find large amounts of buried munitions when they were expanding.
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When we were at the Outer Banks/Corolla, NC a few years ago, a hurricane blew by and put a WWII mine on the beach - got some good pics of it.
After they “disarmed” it, they found it was a dummy mine with no explosives. But it sure had the probes coming from it and looked dangerous.
Live Civil War cannonballs are still occasionally unearthed in Atlanta:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/07/19/atlanta-cannonball/2570553/
I would’ve hauled it home.
Could be a ruse. Could be Iranian, or God knows whose. I would be cautious.
I hope Aunt Pittypat and Melanie are alright.
Crocodile Dundee would agree.
At least the bomb squad looked at it. Doesn’t say if they did any more than looked.
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What in hell does that mean? Is the illiterate author trying to say "an explosive weapon to destroy surface ships and submarines"?
I just recently watched an episode where the exact thing happened on Gilligan’s Island. Gilligan’s Island was way ahead of its time😄
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