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Today a Tallboy bomb found in  a bay near Świnoujście in Poland exploded today during attempt for controlled burn of explosives. No one hurt. It is said that bomb originated from RAF attack on German Lutzow battleship (or rather heavy cruiser) close the end of WW2

Cheers

J-W

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8 hours ago, Asmodai said:

That would totally ruin your day if you happened to be a fish just swimming by...

Fish paste flavoured canal water. Shame there was no audio on the video.

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In a funny coincidence (and a slow news day), the Aussie press was quite chuffed that a fisherman and the Navy had found and gotten rid of (wait for it...) a 100 lb bomb on a remote reef!

 

https://amp.abc.net.au/article/12752446


God knows how the media - and society in general - here would deal with a Tallboy-sized bomb in/near an urban area!

 I do chortle somewhat, when European countries, Japan, Korea and China deal with bigger loads almost on a weekly basis, but in Australia, it’s an “ooh-ahh” novelty of heroic proportions!

 

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"'The object can be considered neutralised, it will not pose any more threat to the Szczecin-Swinoujscie shipping channel,' said Lt Cmdr Grzegorz Lewandowski, spokesman for the Polish Navy's 8th Coastal Defence Flotilla."

 

Indeed: comprehensively neutralised. 

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In fact the Polish Navy initially have tried to burn the explosives without explosion, but something went wrong ("deflagration became detonation" at some moment, they said) and so they finally blew up it. Possibly the blast was smaller than full-scale then. Still everything was safe.

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Just now, GrzeM said:

In fact the Polish Navy initially have tried to burn the explosives without explosion, but something went wrong ("deflagration became detonation" at some moment, they said) and so they finally blew up it. Possibly the blast was smaller than full-scale then. Still everything was safe.

And everyone.

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The media would deal with it not unlike the way they deal with the knowledge that there is stored in Northern NSW a stockpile of ammonium nitrate several times larger that that which blew up Beirut. Total apathy !!

 

One can only hope that it's in better kept condition than in Beirut, otherwise the coastline of Oz will be seriously re-formed.

 

And it's not far from where my daughter and her husband live...........

Rog

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1 hour ago, roginoz said:

The media would deal with it not unlike the way they deal with the knowledge that there is stored in Northern NSW a stockpile of ammonium nitrate several times larger that that which blew up Beirut.

 

I do remember that - sadly, it was yet another case of an easy 'sensational' win for lazy journalism!

Never mind that the Newcastle facility is a complete opposite to Beirut when it comes to storage conditions and management, and rapid turnover of the stockpile - plus the fact that it's not stored in the same sheds with poorly-managed fireworks...

Still, a good day for the media hounds.

 

Getting back to the Tallboy, I am more than a little concerned for the ecosystem of that body of water - a shame it had to go off like that.

 

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20 hours ago, Boman said:

Thanks for the link :yes:

 

That's a big bada-boom! :shocked:  I would have liked a few more frames at the beginning though, just far back enough to see it first break the surface of the water.  It's like one of this gifs that ends too soon.  Just a bit frustrating :hmmm:

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2 hours ago, Mike said:

Thanks for the link :yes:

 

That's a big bada-boom! :shocked:  I would have liked a few more frames at the beginning though, just far back enough to see it first break the surface of the water.  It's like one of this gifs that ends too soon.  Just a bit frustrating :hmmm:

Also frustrating is the lack of any sound.... Would kind of liked to have heard that big boom!

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42 minutes ago, treker_ed said:

Also frustrating is the lack of any sound.... Would kind of liked to have heard that big boom!

Just shout KER-BLAMMO!!!!! next time you play the video ^_^

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New data appeared in today's news:

1. this was one of 12 Tallboys dropped on Lutzow, so far all were considered to explode in 1945...

2. the water column after explosion had 100 m height, this suggests that explosion had 60% yield of the completely uncontrolled one

Regards

J-W

 

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7 hours ago, Blimpyboy said:

Getting back to the Tallboy, I am more than a little concerned for the ecosystem of that body of water - a shame it had to go off like that.

 

Console yourself that the ecosystem is a whole lot healthier than it was in 1945 when the RAF dropped 12 of them.

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