17/02/2023 Australia, Nuovo Galles del Sud (New South Wales)
“If you ever come across anything suspicious like this item, please do not pick it up, contact your local law e enforcement agency for assistance”.
By Glenn Ellard
Shoalhaven-Huskisson. Visitors to a popular dive spot spent more than 40 years swimming over and around an unexploded bomb. The 230kg Mark 82 general purpose bomb disappeared into the water in 1982 and came to rest near the rock formation known as the Drum and Drumsticks at Jervis Bay Marine Park in NSW. It was only recently spotted by a recreational diver who reported it to police, and also provided GPS coordinates, photos and descriptions of the area. Details the diver provided helped the Navy clearance divers who were called in to deal with the unexploded bomb. Officer in charge of maritime explosive ordnance disposal, Chief Petty Officer Joshua Drennan, said it was a sensitive operation because of the wildlife in the area and the rock formation’s popularity as a recreational dive site. He said the dive team had to overcome a number of challenges to locate the bomb, which was eventually found just 30 metres from a thriving seal community. The GPS locations that we had changed so we had to rotate through nearly our whole dive team,” CPO Drennan said. Roughly 11 divers went in the water, two divers at a time, to try to locate it. “We mainly used visual search because sonar is very difficult in among the rocks.”
Photo-Source: mandurahmail.com.au
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