Peterhead Torpedo - environmental surprise

In a change to normal posting topics, today we bring you the Peterhead Torpedo - no, it's not a euphemism for a particularly coronary inducing sausage supper from the North East Coast. Scouring the environmental pages of the nation's media we found this story on the BBC News site and had to share.

What's happened is that the harbour area has been closed due to the find - an armed subaquatic warfare device of 'considerable age' had washed up and had to get taken away by the bomb disposal people to get safely detonated elsewhere.

Incredible to think that there is still WW2 era war machinery still in the sea. It's a shame though that stuff like this can't be made safe without detonation - think how much an unarmed german WW2 torpedo would fetch on ebay!

 

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