100 year old wreck to be blown up

[MartG]

The 100 year old wreck of a German WW1 U-boat will have a controlled detonation carried out on it tomorrow. Since its sinking the wreck has deteriorated to the point where a live torpedo now lies exposed

http://www.sunderlandecho.com/news/first-world-war...

[MartG]

C0ffin D0dger said:

Made me think of this ticking time bomb in the Thames estuary, wonder if they'll ever do anything with it to neutralize it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Richard_Montgomer...

I think that one would take some rather expensive precautions to prevent damage if they tried to blow it up

[MartG]

Safely done http://www.sunderlandecho.com/our-region/sunderlan...

Hopefully someone got some decent pictures/video of it

[MartG]

The explosion was a bit underwhelming

http://www.sunderlandecho.com/our-region/sunderlan...

[MartG]

Longer video showing the preparation of the demolition charge

http://forces.tv/33927568