-----Original Message-----
From: Antoine Delafargue <antoine.delafargue@gmail.com>
To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org
Sent: Thu, Jul 29, 2010 9:43 am
Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Nothing is safe any more:
Hello all,
If a gas pshitt is the only proven threat, then a sub underwater should be fine...
but what about an old mine going off underwater: are there known cases due to collision with a trawler for instance?
I was wondering about this for the English Channel, where many antisubmarine WWII english mines have been layed out (most have been cleaned after the war but who knows). I could not find a mention of this on the web.
regards
Antoine
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Juergen Guerrero Kommritz
<groplias2@yahoo.com> wrote:
Hello pssubers
The problem with the old munition is very big. As far as I know the weapons fields in the baltic sea and the north sea are very big and 2 years ago I heared a discussion about the dangers specialy in front of the coast of Belgium and some experts believe any big storm can breack some of thies weapons and a gas could cloud that get to the surface and kill some thousend of people.
The places are well known as well as the problem. In Bornholm (Denmark) in the baltic sea the fishermen have special intructions to follow when they catch some dangerous "catch" like yellow "rocks" from old chemical weapons. In the baltic sea some of these field are being cleaned because of the construction of the gas pipeline.
Until no accident occur nothing will happen, out of sight out of mind.
Best wishes
Juergen
Von: Michael Holt <mholt@ohiohills.com>
Gesendet: Mittwoch, den 28. Juli 2010, 15:20:19 Uhr
Betreff: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Nothing is safe any more: