WWII Mine Found by North Sea Pipeline!

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Yikes!

The discovery of an unexploded bomb on the seabed next to Britain's most important North Sea pipeline is threatening to shut down dozens of oil fields and force up the price of crude.

The German second world war mine was found by BP during a routine inspection and its removal could involve temporarily shutting off a transportation system that carries more than half a million barrels of crude a day – or 40% of Britain's total output.

Just when you thought WWII was over.... Plot bunny anyone? I see a past/present erotic suspense story. The WWII scenes, where we see the bomb planted, and the present day where intrepid bomb experts try to defuse it.

 

[bronzeage]

Yikes!


Just when you thought WWII was over.... Plot bunny anyone? I see a past/present erotic suspense story. The WWII scenes, where we see the bomb planted, and the present day where intrepid bomb experts try to defuse it.

Don't believe everything you read. BP is setting us up for their next rig explosion.

 

[Handley_Page]

Yikes!


Just when you thought WWII was over.... Plot bunny anyone? I see a past/present erotic suspense story. The WWII scenes, where we see the bomb planted, and the present day where intrepid bomb experts try to defuse it.

Sorry, but they tend to tow the damned thing a fair distance away and then blow it up. It's safer!

bronzeage:- "Don't believe everything you read. BP is setting us up for their next rig explosion."

I wonder if you'd have written that if it was Standard Oil, or whoever. Just a thought.

 

[rgraham666]

When a cousin of mine was in Vietnam on a bicycling holiday in the 90s they made it clear; Do not leave the road, not even to pee.

There were still too many mines, booby traps and unexploded pieces of ordnance to be safe anywhere but roads.

 

[oggbashan]

WWII mines are commonplace around the UK. The bomb disposal teams deal with several a month. There are thousands of tonnes of unexploded ordnance on the WWI battlefields.

A couple of years ago I was in Normandy. The authorities had closed a coastal road during an extreme low tide to deal with a mine that was known to be under a road bridge. Their intention was to close the road for a couple of hours.

Once the demolition team arrived, they found that the mine was resting on a truck carrying 80 large HE shells.

The road was closed for 48 hours but everything was made safe.

As a child in Gibraltar I knew that I must avoid any metal objects on a beach. I ignored clips of live .303 ammo but reported shells, landmines and once a large sea mine. When freediving about 50 yards offshore I was aware that there was a sunken landing craft loaded with explosive. I swum around it.

When trying to plant flowers in our Gibraltar garden I had to remove all the scrap metal from the earth. During the Great Siege of Gibraltar it was reckoned that 7 tonnes of cannonballs had been fired at every square foot. I can believe it. I was fed up with digging out cannonballs just to plant a couple of flowers.

Og

 

[voluptuary_manque]

I like a plot bunny whereby the scurrilous Nazis fill a mine with MasterRacePheramones and have it delivered by submarine to the British Coast just off the line of the Danelaw. The sub is sunk by the ever vigilant Royal Navy and the mine sits on the bottom of the channel until one day, disturbed by pipeline crews, it floats to the surface and detonates, filling the air with chemicals that make everyone mad for tall blonds. Sexual chaos ensues with visiting Swedish athletes mobbed by South Asian girls on the bonnets of their Mini Coopers.

 

[bronzeage]

bronzeage:- "Don't believe everything you read. BP is setting us up for their next rig explosion."

I wonder if you'd have written that if it was Standard Oil, or whoever. Just a thought.

It wouldn't have quite the same sting if it were Standard Oil.

Just after BP's last abuse if stockholder equity, there was a rumor the rig had been destroyed by a clandestine submarine attack, ordered by President Obama as an excuse to halt drilling in the Gulf.

There is quite a bit of unmarked and unexploded ordinance in the Gulf of Mexico. Occasionally a shrimp boat will bring up a discarded shell or German torpedo. Thanks to BP, a shrimpers exposure to that kind of danger will be greatly reduced for the next couple years, or maybe decades.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

How about two Limey fairies, cruising to Sweden for a sex change operation, hit an old mine and dont need the operation after all.