PortandTerminal.com, January 5, 2021 BAGHDAD – Video has been released today showing Iraqi forces detonating a limpet mine that had been discovered attached to the MT Pola, a Liberian-flagged tanker sailing in the waters off the Iraqi port of Basra. Iraq’s military on Saturday said that explosives experts with its naval forces had successfully dismantled the mine. The discovery of …
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PortandTerminal.com, December 3, 2020 A Second World War mine found by divers off the coast of Scotland has been detonated by the Royal Navy. EDINBURGH – An 80-year-old German mine discovered in the Firth of Clyde on Scotland’s west coast has been blown up. The mine was trawled by a marine research vessel and was found to contain 770 lbs …
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PortandTerminal.com, January 22, 2020 How many World War 2 naval mines are still in the water after all of these years? ROUEN, FRANCE – On Sunday a fishing boat off the coast of France, in the region where D-Day took place, brought up in its nets a WWII German naval mine. Fortunately, the crew on the fishing boat did everything …
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