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You should do a video about the Halifax explosion in 1917. It was a French ship filled with explosives that caught fire and exploded, releasing energy equal to almost 3,000 tons of TNT. It killed or injured over 10,000 people. CPAC here in Canada occasionally runs a short film about it.
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I understand there is a similar problem in the Irish Sea, where the Royal Navy dumped tons of poison gas. As far as I recall, these were WWII captured nerve agents and mustard gas.
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This is one hell of a terrorist target. What stops some enterprising Al-Qaeda operative from dropping a bomb on it, maybe from a remote controlled drone or mini sub? Pointless wanton destruction, but that is what terrorists do.
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Is there a safe possibility to make a protected swimming drone, and let it go into the ship to explore it?
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I wonder what the mighty jingles thinks of this...
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tfw it's right outside my door
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Richard Montgomery sounds like a Faulty Towers character 😂
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The Halifax Explosion of December 1917 is a good approximation of what would happen: 2000 dead, 9000 injured. And the ENTIRE BAY of water was either shifted or vaourized in the exposion, baring the ocean floor to the air for a few seconds.
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Upvote if you kept expecting it to blow up.
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why is your microphone covered in cotton candy?
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"Yeah, it's probably gonna be fine."
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just let the ships cargo decay nataraly because the metal cacing will rust becoming weeker and alowing sea water into the explosives creating wet explosive and then that means that there would be no danger to the towns and fule fusilitys near by
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did anybody hear the scream in 1:13?
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Real life Megaton?
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Cant explode in water.
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Interestingly enough, my house is right next to one of the defences they built against an explosion. It is called 'The Bunt', and is approx 10 miles from the wreck of the Montgomery, about 4 miles inland. It was built when the new housing estates were built, and is a large ditch, like a storm drain, allowing the water to run off. The area it is in is mostly re-claimed marshland, and the nearby town of Sittingbourne is on high ground, which is why it was built.
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The vocal critics have a point. The Mont Blanc exploded in Halifax with an explosives cargo similar to this in 1917 and that wiped out more than half the city in the largest man made explosion in recorded history until the Trinity test in 1945. I just hope that the decision is correct in that leaving the ship where it lies untouched is safe. I can't make too much of a judgement since I'm a foreigner who doesn't know the Estuary well.
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schrodinger's boat
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You might care to have a look into everything that was sunk in Beaufort's Dyke ...
3m 28sLänge
BONUS PARK BENCH: https://youtu.be/AhqNMb0fOJU -- In the Thames Estuary, near a town called Sheerness, a few dozen miles east of London, lies a World War 2 shipwreck that contains over 1,000 tonnes of unexploded bombs. Is it a risk to the area? Or is it just an interesting historical artifact? The trouble is, no-one's quite sure... I'm at https://www.tomscott.com/ On Twitter at https://twitter.com/tomscott On Facebook at https://facebook.com/tomscott and on Instagram as @tomscottgo Thanks to Matt Gray for the incredible camerawork: he's at http://mattg.co.uk or @unnamedculprit on basically every social network. And thanks to Maxim Harper, @maximharper on Twitter, for tipping me off to this in the first place!