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Non-Wargaming Discussion => Fun Stuff => Topic started by: steve_holmes_11 on 28 February 2021, 08:36:01 PM

Title: Tallboy explodes - Poland
Post by: steve_holmes_11 on 28 February 2021, 08:36:01 PM
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-54533860 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-54533860)

A dud form the raid that sank the Lutzow exploded during defusing attempts.
Link contains footage of a big water spout and turbulence.

QuoteThe Polish Navy said there had been a 50:50 chance the bomb would explode and all the divers were unharmed.


That's what drones are good for.
Title: Re: Tallboy explodes - Poland
Post by: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 01 March 2021, 06:43:49 AM
Impressive
Title: Re: Tallboy explodes - Poland
Post by: Techno II on 01 March 2021, 07:15:38 AM
Stroll on !!  :o

Good to hear none of the divers were injured.

Cheers - Phil.
Title: Re: Tallboy explodes - Poland
Post by: Big Insect on 01 March 2021, 09:01:05 AM
Very interesting to see the effect in the water - from above - after the detonation.

You'd not have wanted to have dredged that up as you were maintaining the channel!
Title: Re: Tallboy explodes - Poland
Post by: Westmarcher on 01 March 2021, 10:25:18 AM
I didn't read the heading properly and thought for a second that it was being revealed that the one in Exeter was a Tallboy!  :o :-[

I saw the Polish one ages ago (but worth posting as obviously others haven't) but what I hadn't appreciated was that the bomb was a left-over from a raid on the Lutzow, the very first warship kit I built as a boy.  :x

p.s. Should there be any confusion, there was no raid on my model .....
Title: Re: Tallboy explodes - Poland
Post by: steve_holmes_11 on 01 March 2021, 10:58:11 AM
Quote from: Big Insect on 01 March 2021, 09:01:05 AM
Very interesting to see the effect in the water - from above - after the detonation.

You'd not have wanted to have dredged that up as you were maintaining the channel!
You'd evacuate* pretty quickly if you did dredge it up.

* In every sense of the word.