Why This Diver Keeps Finding WW2 Bombs! | Forces TV 

I have had items in museums, still have some. Talking to the new owners of the Shipwreck Museum (Cornwall) and supplying them with more.

Sarina R. Yea.......there are a few things you don’t want to stick in a museum. Live bombs is one of them. Fragments of the real thing is fine...even a replica. But not the real thing. Not fully disarmed and rendered inert at least. One week after the 75th anniversary of the D-day landings a random WW2 bomb exploded in a (thankfully empty) German field. It created a 33 foot wide hole that was 13 feet deep. Old bombs, grenades, and land mines are still killing people to this day. Just because they are “old” does not make them inert. In fact, it makes them more unstable. Heck in the Deep South the bomb squad treat old dirt bombs (exploding cannon balls) from the US Civil War with extreme caution. Using a special pudgy/charge to blast holes into the ball...expelling the potentially dangerous contents out...and putting massive holes in the old cannon ball. But at least now it’s safe to put on the living room table as a discussion piece. Heck, in the past decade one man was killed when sawing a old navy dirt bomb in half...his saw insisted the very well sealed gun powder inside and he died. Yea. Every hear farmers are killed on old war sites when farm equipment hits and sets off old bombs. Yea. War and it’s legacy is no joke.

The local shallow U-Boats have all been salvaged, so very little left. The deeper ones are quite intact, but, due to the depth the amount of equipment required to safely dive those depths would restrict access. They have very small openings.

Atlantic Scuba Thanks for answering but yeah I can see how it would be hard to get down to the deeper ones Probably for the best because this way they are a monument to those crew men who lost there lives on them Even though not many will see them

Out of interest, all the WWI U-Boat logs are available from an archive in the U.S. I have just acquired a copy of a page from 18th December 1916 from a mine laying U-Boat, for a ship a mine sank a few days later, as well as the captain's hand drawn chart showing where they laid the mines.

read "Shadow Divers" it covers that subject quite.

I'd straddle one mouthing "toe to toe with the Ruskies" through my mask just to see if the editors are paying attention aw

Alexander Walle my goldfish served in an infantry unit, every time he hears a bang he hides under his castle

Hydrogen2Oxygen lmao my goldfish was in the infantry as well. Anytime he here’s someone speak German he hides

No turtles in the UK dumbass

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We have been diving a wreck site that was first found in 1971, we are still finding new artefacts that have never been seen or recorded before. There will always be things to find.

Well, I would rather be the one who sets it off than somebody walking along the beach if an atom bomb went bang! That wall of water isn't going to kill you quickly, but the impact with a rock might if you don't struggle until you drown.

I mean... if you do this your self you have to pay for the lesson equipment and you are never sure wether you would be able to get a job since I imagine it is a very narrow market whilst of you do it with the navy your the one getting paid, you don’t have to pay for any lesson or equipment and you are secured a job of you pass

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And Hello from Falmouth Kentucky! 😁

Oh no. Someone please call the police for this horrendous crime. Oh the Humanity...

No one gives one

Samuel Deacon you mean you don’t give one

like first or kinda like , sort of like , literally sorta kinda like or your like the first weirdo fckd up moron that's responsible for the majority of the trouble & mess this world is in ......

Who said he dives alone ?