From the Jan. 25, 2014, TC Palm (Fla.) by Will Greenlee.
Residents were asked to stay inside their houses or leave on Tuesday after two suspected bombs were found in eleven feet of water, fifty feet apart. This was at the site of the former Fort Pierce Naval Amphibious Training Base during the war.
These were found while divers were looking for "Horned Scullies," which were obstacles built to damage landing craft.
Explosion and Ordnance Disposal Unit was called in to excavate them this weekend. It is not known if they had explosives in them.
Follow up: one was a 1000 pound bomb and the other a 500 pound. They were detonated Tuesday. I guess they were still dangerous.
First Sharks, Now This. --GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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