Biggest World War Two bomb found in Poland explodes while being defused

[webfact]

Biggest World War Two bomb found in Poland explodes while being defused

 

The biggest World War Two bomb ever found in Poland exploded under water on Tuesday as navy divers tried to defuse it.

 

WARSAW (Reuters) - The biggest World War Two bomb ever found in Poland exploded under water on Tuesday as navy divers tried to defuse it.

 

More than 750 people had been evacuated from the area near the Piast Canal outside the town of Swinoujscie where the Tallboy bomb used by Britain's Royal Air Force (RAF) was found. It weighed nearly 5,400 kg, including 2,400 kg of explosive.

 

"The deflagration process turned into detonation. The object can be considered as neutralised, it will not pose any more threat," Second-Lieutenant Grzegorz Lewandowski, the spokesman of the 8th Coastal Defense Flotilla, was quoted as saying by state-run news agency PAP.

 

 

 

"All mine divers were outside the danger zone."

 

Swinoujscie contains a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal but a spokesman for the town's mayor told PAP noone was injured and no infrastructure had been damaged.

 

The Piast Canal connects the Baltic Sea with the Oder River on Poland's border with Germany. The bomb was dropped by the RAF in 1945 in an attack on the German cruiser Lutzow.

 

(Reporting by Alan Charlish; editing by Philippa Fletcher)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2020-10-14

 

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[sammieuk1]

Some luckey good news that no one was injured or damage caused in this world of hell right now ????

[Tug]

Sounds to me like they blew it up great no one was killed excellent!!!

[Matzzon]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

exploded under water on Tuesday as navy divers tried to defuse it.

 

2 hours ago, webfact said:

All mine divers were outside the danger zone.

 

2 hours ago, webfact said:

noone was injured

I can not get this together. Need help! I someone as a navy diver tries to defuse a bomb, then they must be working with the bomb. How can they then be outside the danger zone?

Sure, it´s nice to read no one was injured or died. The question is if we can believe it. 

Edited October 13, 2020 by Matzzon

[NCC1701A]

very misleading title.  

[tonray]

37 minutes ago, Matzzon said:

 

 

I can not get this together. Need help! I someone as a navy diver tries to defuse a bomb, then they must be working with the bomb. How can they then be outside the danger zone?

Sure, it´s nice to read no one was injured or died. The question is if we can believe it. 

Remote technology likely. Bomb Disposal units have developed many remote methods to help in keeping casualties down.

[DPKANKAN]

22 minutes ago, NCC1701A said:

very misleading title.  

Sounds like a 'TAT' announcement!!!????????????????????????????????

[owl sees all]

Poor fish. Many deaf in one ear. Some did not make it.

 

Divers OK.

[pacovl46]

36 minutes ago, NCC1701A said:

very misleading title.  

How is it misleading? It exploded while it was being defused. Obviously they did it remotely since no one was injured. 

[jollyhangmon]

 

... news inside EU call it a 'controlled detonation' which it was, matter-of-factly.

 

[Tug]

1 hour ago, Matzzon said:

 

 

I can not get this together. Need help! I someone as a navy diver tries to defuse a bomb, then they must be working with the bomb. How can they then be outside the danger zone?

Sure, it´s nice to read no one was injured or died. The question is if we can believe it. 

They blew it up remotely the safest most sensible way to take care of it make the area and infrastructure safe then fire in the hole!!! Can you imagine trying to defuse a bomb that’s been underwater for 70 years no way they did it the safe way kudos Poland!!

[Ventenio]

Bomb was exploded as an alternative to being simply defused

 

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[rabas]

It seems they were trying to cook it (deflagrate) not detonate it, and it didn't work out that way. Boiled fish versus fish paste. That's why no divers were present at the time.

 

https://www.thoughtco.com/explosions-deflagration-versus-detonation-60731

[Matzzon]

1 hour ago, tonray said:

Remote technology likely. Bomb Disposal units have developed many remote methods to help in keeping casualties down.

Yes, I assumed that as well. However, then there was no divers working with defusing the bomb. Then it was HiTech people at the bomb disposal unit that was working.

[bendejo]

It blowed up real good.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHkvD7-u7y8

 

[Matzzon]

38 minutes ago, Tug said:

They blew it up remotely the safest most sensible way to take care of it make the area and infrastructure safe then fire in the hole!!! Can you imagine trying to defuse a bomb that’s been underwater for 70 years no way they did it the safe way kudos Poland!!

Ok, can you tell me what divers defusing a bomb have to do with that? I was not questioning their methods or the way they got rid of the bomb. I was questioning the way the news was reported and delivered.

 

Just look at the headline. Explodes while being defused?????? 

Edited October 14, 2020 by Matzzon

[stouricks]

And why move 750 people....from where, there do not look to be many houses around. And when it did explode, the shockwave in the water didn't even reach the jetty on the right of the picture.

There have been ships going over the bomb for over 75 years, luckily!

Edited October 14, 2020 by stouricks

[tonray]

14 minutes ago, Matzzon said:

Yes, I assumed that as well. However, then there was no divers working with defusing the bomb. Then it was HiTech people at the bomb disposal unit that was working.

The divers likely connected various remote cables/pneumatics to the device which then turned over control to some operator once at a safe distance. Probably out of the water by the time it went off.

[Matzzon]

3 minutes ago, tonray said:

The divers likely connected various remote cables/pneumatics to the device which then turned over control to some operator once at a safe distance. Probably out of the water by the time it went off.

So, then there were no divers defusing the bomb when it "went" off?

READ! "explodes while being defused"

Can we end this now?

[jollyhangmon]

 

... nice vid (drone as well as underwater) on here, yes, blowed up real good, 555:

 

https://www.rtl.de/cms/riesen-fliegerbombe-vor-usedom-kontrolliert-gesprengt-4630373.html

 

... in essence they write that the original plan to defuse it & get it out there today was deemed to be rather unwise so they detonated it in a controlled manner ...

 

S.O.P.

 

[AbeNormal]

4 hours ago, Tug said:

Sounds to me like they blew it up great no one was killed excellent!!!

safest and only way to deal with it

 

the wording defuse is bull

[Moonlover]

1 hour ago, stouricks said:

And why move 750 people....from where, there do not look to be many houses around. And when it did explode, the shockwave in the water didn't even reach the jetty on the right of the picture.

I doubt that the bomb exploded with anywhere near the full force that it was originally capable of, but they weren't to know that until it actually detonated.

 

When it comes to dealing with explosives you don't take half measures. 

[ballpoint]

7 hours ago, webfact said:

The object can be considered as neutralised, it will not pose any more threat," Second-Lieutenant Grzegorz Lewandowski, the spokesman of the 8th Coastal Defense Flotilla, was quoted as saying by state-run news agency PAP.

Obviously the spokesman in charge of making obvious comments.

[Stargeezr]

So how much deeper will the reservoir be at that spot now?

Geezer

[jollyhangmon]

25 minutes ago, ballpoint said:

Obviously the spokesman in charge of making obvious comments.

 

... 555, obviously ... PR plus Army, always a funny combo ... as can be experienced also in Lieland on a daily basis.

 

 

Edited October 14, 2020 by jollyhangmon

[Proboscis]

4 hours ago, Matzzon said:

 

 

I can not get this together. Need help! I someone as a navy diver tries to defuse a bomb, then they must be working with the bomb. How can they then be outside the danger zone?

Sure, it´s nice to read no one was injured or died. The question is if we can believe it. 

Probably saw chemical leaking from the mechanism of the 80 year old bomb and backed off out of the danger zone. But most likely they were using a remote robot to do some of the work.

[jollyhangmon]

33 minutes ago, Stargrazer9889 said:

So how much deeper will the reservoir be at that spot now?

Geezer

 

... like moonlover says above plenty of the original punch gone after close to 8 decades in not exactly stellar storage ...

Still enough left though, especially if we were to ask them fishies ...

 

Btw, they mention that it was discovered while deepening the canal there anyway, so yes, another way to do that, 555 ...

 

Edited October 14, 2020 by jollyhangmon

[Pilotman]

hell of a delay on that fuse. 

[MaxYakov]

7 hours ago, NCC1701A said:

very misleading title.  

A better article/account [Euronews link] with a much better title. I guess the canal where the bomb was detonated got a bit deeper.

[Enoon]

7 hours ago, Matzzon said:

So, then there were no divers defusing the bomb when it "went" off?

READ! "explodes while being defused"

Can we end this now?

 

"Defuse" is a catch-all term for the process of rendering a UXB inert and unable to explode.

 

in this case the "defusing" consisted of slowly burning out the explosive charge, by remote control, after placing an appropriate device to do so on the bomb (and retiring to a safe distance).

 

Unfortunately the bomb decided to go for extremely rapid burn (explosion) rather than slow burn.

 

Nobody got hurt because initiation of the burn took place by.........remote control.

 

It is ended.