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Scientists find radioactive WWII aircraft carrier off San Francisco coast
San Jose Mercury News ^ | 04/16/2015 | Aaron Kinney

Posted on 04/17/2015 7:14:21 PM PDT by logi_cal869

In a ghostly reminder of the Bay Area's nuclear heritage, scientists announced Thursday they have captured the first clear images of a radioactivity-polluted World War II aircraft carrier that rests on the ocean floor 30 miles off the coast of Half Moon Bay.

The USS Independence saw combat at Wake Island and other decisive battles against Japan in 1944 and 1945 and was later blasted with radiation in two South Pacific nuclear tests. The Navy deliberately sank the contaminated ship in 1951 south of the Farallon Islands.

The rediscovery of the USS Independence offers a fascinating glimpse into American military history and raises old questions about the safety of the Farallon Islands Radioactive Waste Dump -- a vast region overlapping what is now a marine sanctuary where the federal government dumped nearly 48,000 barrels of low-level radioactive waste between 1946 and 1970.

(Excerpt) Read more at mercurynews.com ...


TOPICS: Military/Veterans; Miscellaneous; Science
KEYWORDS: california; farallonislands; fud; hype; ignorance; notlost; notradioactive; postwhinner; radioactivity; ussindependence; wakeisland
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Maybe, just maybe...someone should ping someone else that there should be just a 'few' lines of code to prevent blank fields when posting.

It seems it would save a lot of time & trouble.

Whatever, dude(t).

My original comment: I find just a bit of irony in this story...

1 posted on 04/17/2015 7:14:21 PM PDT by logi_cal869
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To: logi_cal869

30 miles?

This may explain all the homosexuals.


2 posted on 04/17/2015 7:15:22 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle (The Gruber Revelations are proof that God is still smiling on America.)
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To: Balding_Eagle

I was thinking it might explain Pelosi.


3 posted on 04/17/2015 7:20:22 PM PDT by scripter
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To: logi_cal869

‘find’? was it lost??


4 posted on 04/17/2015 7:21:56 PM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: logi_cal869

Godzira! Godzira!

Nope. Just a big frog.


5 posted on 04/17/2015 7:23:55 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: scripter

“...it might explain Pelosi...”
Maybe. But it does explain Godzilla.


6 posted on 04/17/2015 7:27:00 PM PDT by Sasparilla (If you want peace, prepare for war.)
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To: logi_cal869

so that’s where the ship from the Philadelphia Experiment went..


7 posted on 04/17/2015 7:30:16 PM PDT by max americana (fired liberals in our company last election, and I laughed while they cried (true story))
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To: max americana

Nope. That was the USS Eldridge. ;)


8 posted on 04/17/2015 7:34:40 PM PDT by PeaceBeWithYou (De Oppresso Liber! (50 million and counting in Afghanistan and Iraq))
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To: logi_cal869

Interesting...there was a Dec 2013 video on the net showing high radiation in HMB. Jan. 9, 2014 report in patch.com:

The radiation reading on a recent YouTube video showing high levels of radiation on Surfer’s Beach in El Granada using a Geiger Counter are Naturally Occurring Radioactive Materials (NORM) not attributable to Fukushima, according to a report from the California Department of Public Health (CDPH).

“Recent tests show that elevated levels of radiation at Half Moon Bay are due to naturally occurring materials and not radioactivity associated with the Fukushima incident,” said spokeswoman Wendy Hopkins of the California Department of Public Health. “There is no public health risk at California beaches due to radioactivity related to events at Fukushima.”

San Mateo County health officials also say that after testing the sand on Dec. 27 that higher levels of radiation on Half Moon Bay and Pacifica beaches appear to be from naturally occurring minerals, typically found in coastal geology, said Dean Peterson, Director for Environmental Health Services for San Mateo County.


“naturally occurring” — sure!


9 posted on 04/17/2015 7:36:23 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (For those who understand, no explanation is needed. For those who do not, no explanation is possible)
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For Heavens sake don't go getting that big ugly ass, over-grown lizard woken up that's all we need! Old Godzilla gets roused out of the deep and Tokyo gets flattened. I wonder if you have to have "Godzilla insurance'' in Japan.
10 posted on 04/17/2015 7:37:11 PM PDT by jmacusa (Liberalism defined: When mom and dad go away for the weekend and the kids are in charge.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
NORM
11 posted on 04/17/2015 7:43:23 PM PDT by PeaceBeWithYou (De Oppresso Liber! (50 million and counting in Afghanistan and Iraq))
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12 posted on 04/17/2015 7:43:39 PM PDT by rlmorel ("National success by the Democratic Party equals irretrievable ruin." Ulysses S. Grant)
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To: PeaceBeWithYou

Yes, I know LOL but who knows, may be they did it again to another ship..


13 posted on 04/17/2015 7:43:44 PM PDT by max americana (fired liberals in our company last election, and I laughed while they cried (true story))
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For Heavens sake don't go getting that big ugly ass, over-grown lizard woken up that's all we need!

Too late. She's already awake. She has to be cause I heard the other day she's running for POTUS.

14 posted on 04/17/2015 7:47:02 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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And...

The California coast is made up of Franciscan Complex rocks from the northern border down to Morro Bay and younger sedimentary rocks south of that. Exceptions to this pattern are as follows: granite makes up the rocks in and near Bodega Head, Point Reyes, Half Moon Bay and Point Lobos.

15 posted on 04/17/2015 7:48:58 PM PDT by PeaceBeWithYou (De Oppresso Liber! (50 million and counting in Afghanistan and Iraq))
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Ah yes, more Naturally Occurring Lies From Government. Becoming the norm under democrap rule.


16 posted on 04/17/2015 7:50:02 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Is it really all relative, Mister Einstein?)
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To: logi_cal869

Anyone seen any three (or more,)eyed sharks?


17 posted on 04/17/2015 8:02:03 PM PDT by Not now, Not ever! (Girlfriend suggested I use pelousy in place of swear words, A good idea, I think)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Yeah, the point of my ‘irony’ dig was the seeming reluctance of the State of California to do the sensible thing: Desalinization.

I didn’t know they dumped that stuff from the radiological site at Treasure Island & others so close to shore.

http://sfbayview.com/2013/12/hot-spots-radioactive-san-francisco/

“Ironic” on a number of counts.

Tragically, many sailors were tasked with trying to clean up those contaminated sites and ships. I can only imagine that many fared ‘not well’ as a result.

Worse, it hasn’t gotten any better for sailors in the Navy (USS Reagan off Fukushima, March 2011 and those sailors’ double-hit: Exposure and unprotected ‘cleanup’ of the ship at sea).


18 posted on 04/17/2015 8:09:03 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus-)
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To: logi_cal869

An escort carrier.


19 posted on 04/17/2015 8:17:48 PM PDT by BBell
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This ship took atomic blasts and survived!
More detail here.
http://edition.cnn.com/2015/04/17/us/sunken-navy-carrier-revealed/index.html

.....atomic bomb tests at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific on July 1, 1946. It sat just 560 yards from ground zero in the first test, a 23-kiloton air blast of a fission bomb similar to the one used over Nagasaki, Japan, a year earlier, according to the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization. Twenty-four days later, Independence was 1,390 yards from the center of a second atomic blast — also a 23-kiloton device but an underwater detonation.


20 posted on 04/17/2015 8:38:37 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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