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icymist

(15,888 posts) Tue Aug 28, 2018, 07:38 PM Aug 2018

'Unexploded' device floating in Puget Sound off Bainbridge Island (Really strange!)

The Coast Guard is responding to an 'unexploded' device, resembling a mine, drifting in Puget Sound between Brownsville Marina and Bainbridge Island.

The Coast Guard is responding to an 'unexploded' device, resembling a mine, drifting in Puget Sound between Brownsville Marina and Bainbridge Island.

A Coast Guard spokeswoman said the object was reported at about 2 p.m. The Coast Guard established a 1,500-yard safety zone around the ordnance, which was about 1,200 yards east of the marina and drifting south. Crews from the Coast Guard and state Department of Natural Resources were patrolling the area.

https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/unexploded-device-floating-in-puget-sound-off-bainbridge-island/281-588493659
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'Unexploded' device floating in Puget Sound off Bainbridge Island (Really strange!) (Original Post) icymist Aug 2018 OP

Additional information: icymist Aug 2018 #1

I saw a close up picture of it and it looked old. octoberlib Aug 2018 #2

If there's dredging nearby there's no telling what they could've exposed NightWatcher Aug 2018 #3

back when I was in the C.G. we would have opened up on it with the "Ma Deuce", yortsed snacilbuper Aug 2018 #4

Wow! Now the newscaster says the Coast Guard calls this a WWI era mine. icymist Aug 2018 #5

They exploded it! It was a real live mine! icymist Aug 2018 #6

icymist

(15,888 posts)

1. Additional information:

Reply to icymist (Original post)

Tue Aug 28, 2018, 08:38 PM

Aug 2018

The Coast Guard established a 1,500-yard safety zone around the ordnance. Crews from the Coast Guard and state Department of Natural Resources patrolled the perimeter and kept boats from getting too close.

Around 5 p.m., two divers approached the device and started securing it with a rope. The Navy tells KING 5 more information about the device and its disposal should be available soon.

https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/unexploded-device-floating-in-puget-sound-off-bainbridge-island/281-588493659

On the newscast I heard that this device has an amount of scum on it and could actually be an un-exploded WWII mine!

octoberlib

(14,971 posts)

2. I saw a close up picture of it and it looked old.

Reply to icymist (Reply #1)

Tue Aug 28, 2018, 08:41 PM

Aug 2018

NightWatcher

(39,343 posts)

3. If there's dredging nearby there's no telling what they could've exposed

Reply to icymist (Original post)

Tue Aug 28, 2018, 08:49 PM

Aug 2018

I've dredged near Norfolk and Mayport and I've seen all manner of munitions exposed and even hauled up or loosened which later washed ashore nearby.

yortsed snacilbuper

(7,939 posts)

4. back when I was in the C.G. we would have opened up on it with the "Ma Deuce",

Reply to icymist (Original post)

Tue Aug 28, 2018, 08:57 PM

Aug 2018

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probably can't get away with that shit these days?

icymist

(15,888 posts)

5. Wow! Now the newscaster says the Coast Guard calls this a WWI era mine.

Reply to icymist (Original post)

Tue Aug 28, 2018, 09:00 PM

Aug 2018

They are currently towing it away. There is a substantial amount of marine life on the underside. They do not know if this is a training mine or a live one. Still waiting on a statement from the navy.

icymist

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6. They exploded it! It was a real live mine!

Reply to icymist (Original post)

Wed Aug 29, 2018, 02:13 AM

Aug 2018

https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/unexploded-ordnance-floating-near-brownsville-marina/822574442

I wonder what else is floating around Puget Sound!

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