From: Robert N Bryett <rbryett@g...>
Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 09:09:03 +1000
Subject: [GZG] Unexploded ordnance (Was: Mine resistant vehicles)
Back in the day, I was a keen SCUBA-diver, and it was common for divers to bring up old weapons and munitions as souveniers from war- time wrecks. Some, like old S&W revolvers were fairly benign, but many sunken ships had 20mm shells, hand-grenades and mortar-bombs scattered about like confetti. Once, on a beach in Cornwall, I saw a diver whacking with a hammer... An actual shell. About 100mm calibre, still attached to it's cartridge. I left the vicinity. Hurriedly.