From what I have been told they didn't have the time until after the war. And then the allies decided 1. it hasn't gone up 2. We can't be bothered 3. It's in British waters How much of that is true I don't know
I am 82 y.o born and bred in Sheerness . There used to be pleasure craft doing trips around the wreck until the mid 50's . Nobody gave it a thought , until one day some moronic busybody painted on the seawall the message of the dangers lurking out to sea. Do something useful , like castigating the government for illegal immigration .
So much for British maritime law....just chunk it overboard. Maybe having one of those things "hatch" on their decks will get the rest of their mates' attention to do it the right and legal way! But, I doubt there's that many with working brains to understand if they've been doing this for so long!
2:20, the script says “over a thousand of these were built.” True. Between 1941 - 1945 the United States of America built 2,710 of them; or 1 every 16 HOURS!!
@@tobyrose6906 not counting Japanese balloon bombs and a few pot shots from a submarine in early ‘42, the continental United States wasn’t bombed at all
Put there to stop british shipping out of the thames. the americans did this so they could rule the peace. in 1944 they new they would win. so they secured their peace by scuttling this ship.
The amazing thing is that the masts are still standing after all these years of being exposed to the elements.
Who had the bright idea of building an oil and gas storage facility next a potentialy voilatile cache of 80 year old bombs!?!
Who had the bright idea of leaving the ship to get it cleaned up later KNOWING the UK doesn't have the ammount of money needed to salvage the bombs???
From what I have been told they didn't have the time until after the war.
And then the allies decided
1. it hasn't gone up
2. We can't be bothered
3. It's in British waters
How much of that is true I don't know
I am 82 y.o born and bred in Sheerness . There used to be pleasure craft doing trips around the wreck until the mid 50's . Nobody gave it a thought , until one day some moronic busybody painted on the seawall the message of the dangers lurking out to sea. Do something useful , like castigating the government for illegal immigration .
2:31 Reminds me of the Bikini Atoll nuclear test
One of the explosive materials on board is usually in some sort of case bec it reacts with oxygen
If they knew it would deteriorate why wait?
So much for British maritime law....just chunk it overboard. Maybe having one of those things "hatch" on their decks will get the rest of their mates' attention to do it the right and legal way! But, I doubt there's that many with working brains to understand if they've been doing this for so long!
They reckon the tidal wave will be a mighty height of 3 feet.
2:20, the script says “over a thousand of these were built.” True. Between 1941 - 1945 the United States of America built 2,710 of them; or 1 every 16 HOURS!!
USA wasn't bombed like GreatBritain. ..
@@tobyrose6906 not counting Japanese balloon bombs and a few pot shots from a submarine in early ‘42, the continental United States wasn’t bombed at all
Ordnance, not ordinance. They are completely different. A few thousand tons of ordinance would be no problem at all!
These news readers who don't know the difference between ordinance and ordnance!
if the treasure ship off columbia belongs to spain , then this ship belongs to the usa . so the usa has the responsibility to make it safe .
Put there to stop british shipping out of the thames. the americans did this so they could rule the peace. in 1944 they new they would win. so they secured their peace by scuttling this ship.