Watch 18 tons of explosive go off close to a US aircraft carrier.

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Concerto said:
This was a test off the Florida coast on the first of a new type US aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford. This did cause a massive erruption of water and makes me wonder about the wreck of the SS Mongomery near the entrace to the Medway. She sank in 1943 and still has about 1400 tons of explosives onboard, plus being in shallow water the tidal wave would be high.

VIDEO: US Navy test explosion causes earthquake - Marine Industry News
SS Richard Montgomery - Wikipedia
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And you are so close to it when you enter/leave the Medway! Can you not complain to the council?
 
dgadee said:
And you are so close to it when you enter/leave the Medway! Can you not complain to the council?
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The wreck is surveyed regularly and this is the latest survey that has been published by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency. The council have no control regarding this wreck.
https://assets.publishing.service.g..._data/file/806176/SSRM_Survey_Report_2017.pdf

The Montgomery has been there since 1943 and nothing has been exploded so far and probably all will corrode away. I regularly sail past and never feel it is a problem.
 
Concerto said:
The Montgomery has been there since 1943 and nothing has been exploded so far and probably all will corrode away. I regularly sail past and never feel it is a problem.
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I hope you're right.

I'm open to correction, but my understanding of the situation with the Montgomery is that it's still there because it's considered more dangerous to interfere than to do nothing and hope no one parks a tanker on top of it. Even if they do, it probably won't go bang, but it is a possibility

I've a vague memory that someone doing that was part of a doomsday scenario that involved the flood barrier being overwhelmed and a burning oil slick heading across central London. Not a bad disaster movie, but a genuine what-if for civil defence planning.
 
For those with a taste for the macabre there are videos out there of much bigger explosions, on land. I think something like 500 tons of TNT were used to model the effects of a nuclear explosion. There is also film of the US nuclear tests in the Pacific engulfing test ships.
 
Concerto said:
This was a test off the Florida coast on the first of a new type US aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford. This did cause a massive erruption of water and makes me wonder about the wreck of the SS Mongomery near the entrace to the Medway. She sank in 1943 and still has about 1400 tons of explosives onboard, plus being in shallow water the tidal wave would be high.

VIDEO: US Navy test explosion causes earthquake - Marine Industry News
SS Richard Montgomery - Wikipedia
Click to expand...
Munitions in wrecks is possibly far more common then supposed. I know of a couple of 1st WW transport wrecks that were carrying a significant cargo of shells to the front, that are still down there! In addition also at least one UC type sub that has / had an 'egg' still in the tubes and the contents of another having corroded laying on the seabed. Many an armed coaster of the day contained shells/ cases of shells that used to feed their guns, and these if not already been lifted are still there. I remember seeing a couple lifted only to be discarded again when they started fizzing.
 
ean_p said:
Munitions in wrecks is possibly far more common then supposed. I know of a couple of 1st WW transport wrecks that were carrying a significant cargo of shells to the front, that are still down there! In addition also at least one UC type sub that has / had an 'egg' still in the tubes and the contents of another having corroded laying on the seabed. Many an armed coaster of the day contained shells/ cases of shells that used to feed their guns, and these if not already been lifted are still there. I remember seeing a couple lifted only to be discarded again when they started fizzing.
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Some people say that a bridge from Portpatrick to Donaghadee is impossible because of the munitions dump. Naysayers, all of them.
 
I like the environmental engineering in your link:

"The British originally expected the island to be totally destroyed. The island survived but it’s physical shape was altered for ever. Its southern tip caved in to a huge crater, that is today a celebrated tourist spot."

Larne could become a tourist hotspot!
 
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