SS Richard Montgomery
Discussion
Suppose this is the best place for this topic, it is boat related!
Watched Coast a couple of nights ago, and they spoke about the SS Richard Montgomery that sunk delivering munitions near Sheerness.
Still full of a ridiculous amount of explosives, decaying, and it seems the Department of Transport decided a few years ago that 'leaving it is no longer an option'.
Now, it seems that if it did go up, then a fairly substantial amount of damage will be caused, so a controlled explosion is out.
A ROV or manual recovery of the munitions is clearly going to be a mammoth task, and one wrong move and it's bye bye Sheerness.
So, wise people of PH, how would you sort it?
(and nuking it from orbit, whilst the only way to be sure, is not an option!)
Watched Coast a couple of nights ago, and they spoke about the SS Richard Montgomery that sunk delivering munitions near Sheerness.
Still full of a ridiculous amount of explosives, decaying, and it seems the Department of Transport decided a few years ago that 'leaving it is no longer an option'.
Now, it seems that if it did go up, then a fairly substantial amount of damage will be caused, so a controlled explosion is out.
A ROV or manual recovery of the munitions is clearly going to be a mammoth task, and one wrong move and it's bye bye Sheerness.
So, wise people of PH, how would you sort it?
(and nuking it from orbit, whilst the only way to be sure, is not an option!)
dr_gn said:
Sway said:
Suppose this is the best place for this topic, it is boat related!
Watched Coast a couple of nights ago, and they spoke about the SS Richard Montgomery that sunk delivering munitions near Sheerness.
Still full of a ridiculous amount of explosives, decaying, and it seems the Department of Transport decided a few years ago that 'leaving it is no longer an option'.
Now, it seems that if it did go up, then a fairly substantial amount of damage will be caused, so a controlled explosion is out.
A ROV or manual recovery of the munitions is clearly going to be a mammoth task, and one wrong move and it's bye bye Sheerness.
So, wise people of PH, how would you sort it?
(and nuking it from orbit, whilst the only way to be sure, is not an option!)
I heard about that too:Watched Coast a couple of nights ago, and they spoke about the SS Richard Montgomery that sunk delivering munitions near Sheerness.
Still full of a ridiculous amount of explosives, decaying, and it seems the Department of Transport decided a few years ago that 'leaving it is no longer an option'.
Now, it seems that if it did go up, then a fairly substantial amount of damage will be caused, so a controlled explosion is out.
A ROV or manual recovery of the munitions is clearly going to be a mammoth task, and one wrong move and it's bye bye Sheerness.
So, wise people of PH, how would you sort it?
(and nuking it from orbit, whilst the only way to be sure, is not an option!)
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...
Don't suppose there's anything you could do (otherwise "they'd" have already done it).
It's a divide by zero moment really isn't it?
Can't do anything, but doing nothing is not an option...
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