[quote]It's not unusual for East Coast fishermen to find grenades and other old munitions in their traps, but rarely do they find 126 at once.
Workers at the Fair Tide Shellfish plant were stunned Friday to find the World War II era grenades as they began to process a load of clams that had been dredged up off Long Island and shipped to New Bedford for processing.
Some of the vintage grenades had pins-- others did not-- but all were potentially dangerous.
"Come to find out, based on what the Navy said, they were live. They were loaded for bear so to speak," said Tom Slaughter of Fair Tide Shellfish.
There were entire cases of grenades still intact in their original wooden crates, covered in black muck from decades spent in deep waters.
"We thought they were like big chunks of black coal, the kind used in old ships. When one broke open, we found all the grenades inside. The cases were encompassed in black coal-like marine life," said Slaughter.
The plant was evacuated and the State Police Bomb Squad and the U.S. Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal team moved in. They moved the grenades out in a dump truck full of sand.
The slow procession made its way to a nearby jetty, where experts set up an isolated, controlled site to detonate the old munitions.
The grenades were detonated safely in a spectacular blast at about 7:30 p.m. The shockwave from the blast was felt over a mile away, but there were no injuries.[/quote]
Source: [url]http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/23252953/detail.html[/url]
Can someone explain why there's tons of unused grenades lying about in the ocean floor?
What an [i]explosive[/i] discovery.
they were french world war 2 grenades actually, which is even weirder
I bet whoever found them had a [I]blast[/I]
[QUOTE=Kill001;21559148]Source: [url]http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/23252953/detail.html[/url]
Can someone explain why there's tons of unused grenades lying about in the ocean floor?[/QUOTE]
The military dumped a lot of shit out there in the Atlantic over the years. Somewhere out there, there's hundreds of cut up 1911s, Thompsons, and BARs. This thing with the grenades doesn't surprise me; could have been jostled overboard during an attack or went down with a ship somewhere.
[QUOTE=massn7;21559243]The military dumped a lot of shit out there in the Atlantic over the years. Somewhere out there, there's hundreds of cut up 1911s, Thompsons, and BARs. This thing with the grenades doesn't surprise me; could have been jostled overboard during an attack or went down with a ship somewhere.[/QUOTE]
We are fucked if the dolphins rise up against us.
So that's where all those grenades I threw in CoD2 went to.
A crate of grenades in the sea? Thats nothing, we found the holy hand grenade of Antioch in a pub.
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What a crate surprise for them.
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I bet it blew their minds finding something like that.
[QUOTE=Deathbyfire;21559470]A crate of grenades in the sea? Thats nothing, we found the holy hand grenade of Antioch in a pub.
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What a crate surprise for them.
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I bet it blew their minds finding something like that.[/QUOTE]
You suck at crating puns they're so clammy you need to net a ban for those
They should throw them off the ships next time they go out. Not often do you get to throw grenades.
[QUOTE=Zeke129;21560248]You suck at crating puns they're so clammy you need to net a ban for those[/QUOTE]
Goddamn, from your post I'm pinning you as a person who can shell out puns well.
OP, they could have simply been knocked off a ship during a storm.
[QUOTE=Lambeth;21559211]they were french world war 2 grenades actually, which is even weirder[/QUOTE]
Looks like even French grenades can't run forever.
[QUOTE=Zeke129;21560248]You suck at crating puns they're so clammy you need to net a ban for those[/QUOTE]
you are brilliant.
I would have lobbed them into the ocean.
Whoever found them must have gotton really [I]clammy.[/I]
Never heard of fishing with grenades in the US?
KA-BOOM?
Reminds me of the time when a fishing trawler caught a sea mine in their net.
[QUOTE=BCell;21562256]KA-BOOM?
Reminds me of the time when a fishing trawler caught a sea mine in their net.[/QUOTE]
Not uncommon. Many of the original naval mines have drifted away from their original locations or sunk.
Locating and disarming them is a 24/7 operation that is still going.
[QUOTE=Zeke129;21560248]You suck at crating puns they're so clammy you need to net a ban for those[/QUOTE]
what an explosive reaction
Two favorite things of mine together in one package: Seafood and high explosives.
[quote]Tom Slaughter of Fair Tide Shellfish.[/quote]
What an appropriate name :v:
[QUOTE]The grenades were detonated safely in a spectacular blast at about 7:30 p.m. The shockwave from the blast was felt over a mile away, but there were no injuries.[/QUOTE]
Are there usually injuries when things are detonated [i]safely[/i]?
[QUOTE=Thomas849;21562094]Never heard of fishing with grenades in the US?[/QUOTE]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PB2N8NrjAE[/media]
Mind-[i]blowing[/i] discovery!
50,000 clams used to live here, now it's a ghost town.
I bet Vietnamese fishermen get this shit all the time. After Nam, the military just dumped a bunch of shit overboard because they couldn't fit it all.
[QUOTE=Kill001;21559148]Source: [url]http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/23252953/detail.html[/url]
Can someone explain why there's tons of unused grenades lying about in the ocean floor?[/QUOTE]
Possibly a sunken WW2 freighter?
I want one!
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