i bet theres still thousands of em just sat on the north and channel seabeds, we never really did bother to clean up the stuff that wasnt of immediate risk after ww2.
I'm still waiting for the montgomery to go up, it'll be one hell of a boom being so close to the surface
Sailed past the Montgomery a few times in the early sixties,she was still in pretty good nick back then,she just looked like a vessel at anchor near the dredged channel,dunno why they dont just cook her off and get it over with.
In the 1990s the clearance divers blew up a load of ammunition from the SS Isleford which had run aground in Wick Bay during WW2. There were some 16" solid shells in the ammo that was blown up. The Isleford was on her way south from Lyness in Scapa Flow, Orkney to Invergordon when she ran aground at Wick.
Could someone explain to me please. Watching this and footage of depth charges exploding, one witnesses a small explosion followed by the big one with reports from both. What causes the two explosions from one charge?
The first explosion is the small charge used to set off the larger mine, hence you get two explosions.
Sometimes the go for a dispersing charge that disrupts the larger charge and stops the larger charge giving it's full effect, the video shows that that didn't happen in this case.
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