{"id":106160,"date":"2020-10-13T07:00:27","date_gmt":"2020-10-13T11:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=106160"},"modified":"2020-10-12T21:04:46","modified_gmt":"2020-10-13T01:04:46","slug":"hundreds-evacuated-as-polish-divers-begin-high-risk-bomb-defusal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=106160","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds evacuated as Polish divers begin high-risk bomb defusal"},"content":{"rendered":"
RAF crew loading Tallboy bomb for an air raid<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Recent dredging operations turned up a 12,000 pound WWII bomb lodged (and still active) in the mud of a channel in the Baltic Sea on the Polish coast. The bomb, a “Tallboy” of British design and use, was an “earthquake” bomb, what we’d now call a bunker buster. The bombs were hardened with a thick casing that would allow the bomb to survive the impact with a hardened (or armored in the case of warships) surface before detonating. The bombs carried 5,200 pounds of Torpex D1, which is 50% more powerful than TNT by weight.<\/p>\n

In a first, the 75 year old bomb is remarkably well preserved.<\/p>\n

Hundreds of residents were evacuated on Monday as Polish military divers began a delicate operation to defuse a massive World War II bomb in a channel near the Baltic Sea.<\/p>\n

The five-tonne device — nicknamed “Tallboy” and also known as an “earthquake bomb” — was dropped by the Royal Air Force in an attack on a Nazi warship in 1945.<\/p>\n

It was discovered last year during dredging close to the port city of Swinoujscie — formerly Swinemunde, a part of Germany — in the far northwest of Poland.<\/p>\n

“It’s a world first. Nobody has ever defused a Tallboy that is so well preserved and underwater,” Grzegorz Lewandowski, spokesman for the Polish Navy’s 8th Coastal Defence Flotilla based in Swinoujscie, told AFP.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

More at the source.<\/p>\n

Source; Yahoo<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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