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.
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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...
30 miles?
This may explain all the homosexuals.
I was thinking it might explain Pelosi.
‘find’? was it lost??
Godzira! Godzira!
Nope. Just a big frog.
“...it might explain Pelosi...”
Maybe. But it does explain Godzilla.
so that’s where the ship from the Philadelphia Experiment went..
Nope. That was the USS Eldridge. ;)
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 Surfers 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!
Yes, I know LOL but who knows, may be they did it again to another ship..
Too late. She's already awake. She has to be cause I heard the other day she's running for POTUS.
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.
Ah yes, more Naturally Occurring Lies From Government. Becoming the norm under democrap rule.
Anyone seen any three (or more,)eyed sharks?
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).
An escort carrier.
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.
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