WW2 British bomb found in Koblenz causes 45000 people evacuation

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Originally Posted by fruitbat

There's a liberty ship that sank off the coast of Sheerness, can see it at low tide.



Navy divers won't go near, its to unstable, some say sooner or later it will go bang, probably taking most of Sheerness and the Isle of Sheppy with it, some say it won't, who knows.

On board,

13,064 general purpose 250lb bombs
9,022 cases of fragmenting bombs
7,739 semi-armour piercing bombs
1,522 cases of fuses
1,429 cases of phosphorous bombs
1,427 cases of 100lb demolition bombs
817 cases of small arms ammunition

http://www.ssrichardmontgomery.com/i...montgomery.htm

Arguably, if you've ever been to the isle of Sheppy (the isle of 6 toes) this can be viewed with a positive spin.

Doesn't even need to explode to be highly dangerous, when the casings erode and all the bad stuff goes out into the environment. But if there is a real danger of exploding the government will have to take action, everything else would be crass irresponsible.

That aside, I understand the need to get rid of all the ammo after WW2, but the kind of action taken reminds me of todays nuclear waste and other environmental harm, not a problem today, lets those in the future sort it out.