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Naval mine explodes off the coast of Georgia

2023-02-14

Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[REGNUM] Near the coast in Georgian Batumi, according to preliminary data, a sea mine exploded. This was reported on February 13 by the Rustavi-2 TV channel.

The TV channel published a video of the incident. In the footage, you can see that an object similar to a mine is floating near the shore. After the explosion, a column of water rose.

Which country the mine belongs to is not reported. According to preliminary information, no one was hurt. Due to bad weather conditions, there were no boats at sea at the time of the explosion. A storm is raging in the sea near Batumi.

Posted by:badanov

#2 Not out of the realm of possibilities

If Godzilla is a metaphor for the atomic bomb then Tybee Island has its own city-smashing monster slumbering off the coast, waiting to perhaps one day wake up and wreak destruction on Georgia shores.

On February 5, 1958, an F-86 fighter jet had a mid-air collision with a B-47 bomber carrying a Mark 15 hydrogen bomb during a training exercise. The pilot of the F-86 managed to eject before his jet disintegration, and the damaged bomber managed to make a harrowing emergency landing at Hunter Army Airfield, but not before it jettisoned the 7,600-pound bomb into the waters around Wassaw Sound, so that it could lighten its load and prevent the bomb from exploding in the event that they crashed.

A 10-week search mission by 100 Navy personnel was unable to trace where the bomb fell.

It’s still there somewhere

Posted by: Beavis 2023-02-14 21:14

#1 Oh, not Savannah.

Posted by: Skidmark 2023-02-14 19:50

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