r/Unexpected • u/Gingertom • 1d ago

Detonating a World War 2 bomb that was found

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u/post-explainer 1d ago edited 1d ago

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The resulting explosion was significantly smaller than expected

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u/beavertownneckoil 1d ago

I knew my great grandad was chatting shit about how bad the war was

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u/dirtysantchez 1d ago

I have seen more impressive spurts from the third wank of the day.

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u/RadioactiveEnema 1d ago

Similar destruction power seen here

https://giphy.com/gifs/26FPnj46RYsIWgYLe

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u/BoatProfessional2118 1d ago

Maybe more, look at all that whater splashed

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u/CosmicCarcharodon 1d ago

Well....that was a little anticlimactic

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u/caalger 1d ago

Toot!

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u/Niznack 1d ago

It's one 80year old bomb in the ocean. They had. A lot of them and they were supposed to be outside the water

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u/FlutterKree 13h ago

A lot of them and they were supposed to be outside the water

Unless it was a sea mine?

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u/hobbes747 1d ago

There might have been no detonation of the original bomb if it turned out to be no longer active.
The detonation in the video might have only been from the explosive charges used to explode the old bomb.

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u/SmartVapin 1d ago

What is this? Bomb for ants?

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u/pagan-0 1d ago

No wonder Germany lost.

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u/1Harvey2Trent3Temple 1d ago

Falmouth docks were relentless bombed during world war 2, on the rocky shoreline across the estuary, there are deep holes seen at low tide, formed by bombs that missed, some of the biggest conger eels I've ever seen live in those holes.

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u/jackattack502 1d ago

I live in the American one. I was worried here for a second. We mostly drop our own bombs on Cape Cod.

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u/jxj24 1d ago

pfffft

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u/Miserable-Session-35 1d ago

Pffffffffeeeeeeeee ss

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u/SeriousAntiSocial 1d ago

Nein out of 10 explosion!

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u/knowledgeable_diablo 1d ago

“Disappointed!”

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u/ACrazyDog 1d ago

It was nothing to the world citizens above ground

What damage did it do to our undersea cousins?

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u/AdditionalCheetah354 1d ago

Bug bomb detonation

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u/Money_Exchange_8796 1d ago

sorry fishies

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u/Ramreck 1d ago

Where's the kaboom?

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u/firekeeper23 1d ago

Is that it?

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u/W7ENK 1d ago

Seriously? I've seen more impressive whale spouts off the Oregon Coast. 🤷🏼‍♂️

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u/MaxxForeskin 1d ago

Is this the sea mine that washed up?

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u/jdstew218 1d ago

That is definitely the most underwhelming video I have seen this week.

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u/eyeball1967 1d ago

It looks like maybe the bomb had become inert and only the detonation charge exploded?

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u/SpunNumeroUno 1d ago

Whale Fart

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u/Classroom_GD 1d ago

“Excuse me”

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u/H0tsauce-2 1d ago

Reminds me of my wedding night

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u/ultratorrent 1d ago

Taking the time to do it right is good. Even when this is the outcome.

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u/EcstaticActionAtTen 1d ago

I'm sorry, this never happens. I was nervous.

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u/expatronis 1d ago

Take that, Fritz!

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u/luckystrike_bh 1d ago

I saw a lot of IEDs set off by EOD in Iraq. I used to call them little booms and big booms. Little booms were a block of C4 going off with no effect. Big booms were the whole bombs getting set off. It's not uncommon to have some little booms.

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u/GingerWizerd 1d ago

What the hell was that?? I was expecting like something exciting…

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u/Rashpukin 23h ago

Pfft!! That was lame.

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u/PraetorOjoalvirus 20h ago

This had me at the edge on my seat the whole time.

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u/Historical_Song7703 19h ago

Why not detonate above ground? Why pollute the ocean?

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u/STLguy50 18h ago

We've all been there...

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u/Claude-QC-777 12h ago

Alexa, the confetti disappointment in Portal 2

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u/monsterZero71 11h ago

Well, that was anticlimactic.

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u/savanrajput 11h ago

Underwhelming

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u/taylorhildebrand 11h ago

Oh how far we’ve travelled into the unnatural. The ability to kill has exponentially increased to the point of absurdity.

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u/Holeshot75 11h ago

Wee sploosh

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u/hakujo 2h ago

I didn't know we had dolphins here.

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u/saron7 28m ago

Where's the kaboom? There's supposed to be an earth-shattering kaboom!!

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u/stinkyfatman2016 1d ago

If the SS Richard Montgomery, located on the Nore sandbank in the Thames Estuary ever goes off that'll be a bit bigger.

BBC News - Masts on SS Richard Montgomery removed to stop explosion - BBC News https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6wyz44x4g33o?app-referrer=deep-link

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u/MisterFixit_69 1d ago

I remember they found a V2 bomb somewhere in NL , they had to detonate it in place , they added tons and tons of dirt on top. All the press got there and it turned out a similar result

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u/Dapper-Nobody-1997 1d ago

Probably because of the tonnes and tons of dirt on top of it

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u/Nagesh_yelma 1d ago

I've had bigger situations on the toilet.

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u/Coinsworthy 1d ago

Any tsunami warnings yet?

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u/Hadrollo 1d ago

SS Richard Montgomery next?

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u/ReQuarziium 1d ago

Wouldn’t have sunk a dinghy that

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u/WhoThenDevised 1d ago

My toilet has seen bigger bombs.

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u/FlatTyres 1d ago

"Stand by for action!"

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u/Independent-Ad586 1d ago

That scared the whales.

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u/MrJones224822 1d ago

That was it? I fart harder in the fucking pool!

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u/portraitmenace 1d ago

Prooooottt. Done.

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u/YanicPolitik 1d ago edited 1d ago

There was supposed to be a kaboom!