Engineers have removed the masts of the SS Richard Montgomery – a second world war cargo ship that sank in 1944 with approximately 1,400 tonnes of munitions onboard – without triggering the kind of feared explosion that has kept the wreck under constant guard for decades.
Umm, why is that still there?! Sounds like. There’s no plan to get rid of it. Just ask ships to go around it.
Officer_Pickles@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
It’s not possible to remove it and we’re stuck in the position where it’s holding enough unexploded bombs to devastate a kebt coastal town and send a tidal wave through London.
whatthey@feddit.uk 6 hours ago
Exactly this.
Cant’ touch it for fear of exposing white phosphorous to water and causing an explosion.
There was a plan to put a concrete bund over it but that’s been kicked down the road for what now, at least 40 years and they probably don’t want to do that for fear of giving first time buyers hope that they’ve started building projects. 🤣