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you are serghei lavrov daughter, for sure !
Wow, still to this day? I thought most had been cleared in 40's and 50's. Any estimate on how many remain? @navalhistorian @Innes_McCartney
Crazy right? But they are still finding UXOs in lots of places in Europe (esp. ones that were heavily bombed) so not surprising I guess
The news story from Frankfurt this week certainly proves that. I was just in France on a project & we had gendarmerie on call just in case
Indeed. The "Iron Harvest" still spits out large amounts of stuff from WW1, let alone WW2.
In terms of your original question on leftover maritime ordnance, you are right, major mine clearance ops were conducted in the years post..
both World Wars. I have no idea as to estimates of what they missed, myself. @CIC_Moore may have an idea though?
Estimation is difficult but they're found regularly. OSPAR has some good info on dumped munitions in Europe:https://www.ospar.org/work-areas/eiha/munitions …
Interesting. Thanks.
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Great job clearing up the mess #scuba #divegear101
we are More Confortable IF Cleaning Procees will involve Agresive Soviet Navy !
and growing
since when has the Baltic been Russian & clearing mines been aggression
if Russia hadn't occupied "to protect it's citizens" parts of other states as Germany did prior to WW II the Baltic states would not fear ru
i was referring to the german invasion of poland in 1938
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