Posted on 08/28/2018 8:32:22 PM PDT by ameribbean expat
Yes, but this is an EMPTY flux capacitor! (Which is why it is floating so high in the water.)
Have you seen this video?
https://www.facebook.com/james.h.cost/videos/2051323811553711/
Safety reminder! Always remember to refill your flux capacitor with an FAA-approved propwash from a calibrated and properly grounded flight line extension cord before your next flight!
Or a Lib. It’s WA, they’ve got plenty to spare.
That they blew it up suggests it real. Lack of rust, high float is suspicious. Wonder if there are more where it came from? Will they bury this or show some transparency?
Good... maybe the pieces will offer some hints.
Prank.
Its a small looking mine. I remember when I was a kid after the war ended there was a mine on the beach in Coney Island. It was black and large. Judging from the ripples this isn’t a big one. It looks to be about 2’ across. Some one looking for 15 minutes of fame. After 75 yrs in the water it looks awful clean with no thick weed,and no built up barnacles? I had to clean a boat after every summer use, scraping the bottom free of barnacles and weed growth.
Yeah - Safer for the EOD to blow it up.
But for tracking it down - if not a WWII relic - then the evidence is also blown up.
You’d need to see the video to judge if the real mine explosives blew up, the mine warhead were empty and dumped in the water as a gag, if the original explosives were a dud, or if just the detonating charge went off.
Well, there is that
Wow... I used to live on the water 3 houses up from that marina. The naval underwater warfare center (Keyport) was about 2 more miles up. We often saw SEALS playing with their man-powered sub at the marina.
They did torpodo testing in that area during WW2... maybe a relic from those days.
LOL.....I was going to rag on you for moving away from such a beautiful place, but then I read your reasoning and I completely agree. LOL
Also the compass was not calibrated and was hung up on the compass stop at 387 degrees. It's easy to spin off course without a good compass stop.
Isn’t there a dead whale they can use to blow it up?
I vote they use Rosie O’Donnell for that.
WTF?
well hell China owns half our ports, what’s peppering the sea with mines..easy pickins..america is asleep..any competent general would easily import an army to the USA
“It looks just like a World War II mine,” said Tom Parks, a retired Navy master chief who snapped pictures as the corroded object bobbed by his Brownsville home.”
“The object was round and heavily rusted, with rods protruding from its surface. According to a Navy news release, “the unidentified moored mine was found to have decades of marine growth”
A common method of destroying mines is to attach an explosive to it, which could also account for “it blew up”. My guess this Wednesday morning is that it was a fake since it is riding too high to be a normal naval mine. But, better safe than sorry.
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