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Old Mine(?) floating in Puget Sound
August 29, 2018, 02:18 AM
YooperSigsOld Mine(?) floating in Puget Sound
Similar to the "Harvest of Iron" in France and Belgium.
End of Earth: 2 Miles
Upper Peninsula: 4 Miles
August 29, 2018, 12:21 PM
sigcrazy7quote:
Dealing with something like this is so badass. My MOS dealt with explosives, and I get a small vicarious adrenaline rush just thinking about approaching something like this. Being associated with EOD makes for exciting work days. Those guys doing it in Europe must have one helluva retirement party when someone makes it that far.
Demand not that events should happen as you wish; but wish them to happen as they do happen, and you will go on well. -Epictetus August 29, 2018, 12:52 PM
gw3971quote:
Originally posted by Copefree:
I saw video on the local feed here of those two Navy divers swimming around it and securing the line to it
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Short straw guys? Hell, these guys are probably excited to do stuff like this. God bless them.
August 29, 2018, 01:05 PM
sdy
A pair of U.S. Navy divers attach a rope to a "reported unexploded ordnance" drifting in the water between Brownsville Marina and Bainbridge Island, off Brownsville, Wash.,
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018...ons-puget-sound.htmlAugust 29, 2018, 01:05 PM
sigmonkeyquote:
Originally posted by Sigmanic:
Mine blowed up...
Not mine.
"the meaning of life, is to give life meaning" ✡ Ani Yehudi אני יהודי Le'olam lo shuv לעולם לא שוב! August 29, 2018, 01:31 PM
erj_pilotReally?!?!? All we get to see is a 0.0000017 second snippet of the explosion? I wanna see some stuff BLOWN UP!!!!
"If you’re a leader, you lead the way. Not just on the easy ones; you take the tough ones too…” – MAJ Richard D. Winters (1918-2011), E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne
"Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil... Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel." - Isaiah 5:20,24 August 29, 2018, 01:46 PM
nhtagmemberquote:
Originally posted by domcintosh:
They aren't going to shoot this thing. It is likely being tracked by Navy Region Northwest out of my former office. Shooting it to set it off would cause noise pollution, agitating the already annoyed whale chasers who fault the Navy every sound in the water. Expect they'll use a number of small boats to tow it closer to Keyport.
Can't tell you where it came from, but if EOD is looking into it it is probable they've presumed it to be real. It is near the right base for a response: NUWC and Navy divers work out of the base.
they could always ask the enviro-whackos to come give them a hand - make themselves useful and tow it to a place they deem safe
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August 29, 2018, 01:53 PM
airsoft guyWaiting for Governor Doucheface to blame it on global warming and Trump.
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Originally posted by Will938:
If you don't become a screen writer for comedy movies, then you're an asshole.
August 29, 2018, 01:56 PM
92fstechReminds me of a scene from one of my favorite movies:
Hot Fuzz Sea Mine Scene 
August 29, 2018, 02:01 PM
HRKFrom the original link the video of the explosion looks anticlimatic, it wasn't as big as you'd have thought considering the size of the mine.
Also it appears there's a second water spout way behind the mine, wonder what that's from.
https://komonews.com/news/loca...-in-port-orchard-bayAugust 29, 2018, 02:08 PM
229DAKquote:
Also it appears there's a second water spout way behind the mine, wonder what that's from.
Pieces of the mine?
To me it appears the blast is just from the Navy-set initiation charge and none of the mine itself. Chances are the mine, over time, leaked and seawater rendered the mine's explosive charge (possibly TNT) inert?
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August 29, 2018, 03:29 PM
SgtGoldRussians. It's always Russians
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August 29, 2018, 03:41 PM
Xer0They should have just stuck some fake eyes on it and called greenpeace about some rare endangered species that needed saving.
August 29, 2018, 05:59 PM
rburgThat without a doubt was the very worst thread I've ever bothered to open. I bet I had to watch a half dozen commercials to see the one explosion. All the while I suffered through my local station showing it go off several times.
Unhappy ammo seeker
August 29, 2018, 06:04 PM
erj_pilotNow THAT'S what I wanted to see, HRK. Thanks!!!
"If you’re a leader, you lead the way. Not just on the easy ones; you take the tough ones too…” – MAJ Richard D. Winters (1918-2011), E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne
"Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil... Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel." - Isaiah 5:20,24 August 29, 2018, 06:33 PM
wishfull thinkerThat's my island paradise that it's floating around. Good riddance.
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August 29, 2018, 06:40 PM
phydoughI heard that it was some dude named "Rich" that jarred the mines moorings loose when he nose dived a Q4 into a nearby island.
Sarcasm, probably not a true story, probably.
August 29, 2018, 07:33 PM
sigmonkey
"the meaning of life, is to give life meaning" ✡ Ani Yehudi אני יהודי Le'olam lo shuv לעולם לא שוב! August 29, 2018, 09:23 PM
OzarkwoodsLooks like a bobber I saw an Arkansas fisherman using once.
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