This is not a SFW instance. NSFW communities will be tagged, and efforts will be made to keep SFW communities clean, but proceed at your own comfort level.
Long story short it has an ass load of unexploded ordinance, an exclusion zone around it and a cautionary tale…
One of the reasons that the explosives have not been removed was the unfortunate outcome of a similar operation in July 1967, to neutralise the contents of the Polish cargo ship Kielce, that sank in 1946, off Folkestone in the English Channel. During preliminary work, Kielce exploded with a force equivalent to an earthquake measuring 4.5 on the Richter scale, digging a 20-foot-deep (6 m) crater in the seabed and bringing “panic and chaos” to Folkestone, although there were no injuries. Kielce was at least 3 or 4 miles (4.8 or 6.4 km) from land, had sunk in deeper water than Richard Montgomery, and had “just a fraction” of the load of explosives.
Yeah dumping ammunition and bomb in water make them less predictible, able to spontaneously explode and even in water the amount of explosive will directly damage humans life and building. Even if it does not explode it contaminate water, fauna, flaura and humans.
The article explain that yes, the government is aware, yes the risk is imminent, yes they will do something… in 2001… yes nothing is done. yes they are surveys… yes they confirm the risk is even more imminent…
Well I was curious so I did.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Richard_Montgomery
Long story short it has an ass load of unexploded ordinance, an exclusion zone around it and a cautionary tale…
Thank a lot. It was interesting.
Yeah dumping ammunition and bomb in water make them less predictible, able to spontaneously explode and even in water the amount of explosive will directly damage humans life and building. Even if it does not explode it contaminate water, fauna, flaura and humans.
The article explain that yes, the government is aware, yes the risk is imminent, yes they will do something… in 2001… yes nothing is done. yes they are surveys… yes they confirm the risk is even more imminent…
Fuck.