Broken Arrow Discovered?

[MisterCairo]

Not sure if anyone else has come across this, but the Royal Canadian Navy is investigating the possible sighting of a long-lost (probably dummy) nuclear bomb of the coast of British Columbia.

An object was found by a diver near Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Islands formerly):

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/briti...estigate-object-found-off-b-c-coast-1.3835542

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-37875697

 

[Otter]

Live bomb, just missing the plutonium core which was inserted in flight as a "safety feature". The mark 4 was basically a GI proof version of the fat man device. The divers description doesn't quite match the bomb, I am guessing it is an old ships boiler or condenser.

Piles of conspiracy theories around that B36 crash.

 

[MisterCairo]

Live bomb, just missing the plutonium core which was inserted in flight as a "safety feature". The mark 4 was basically a GI proof version of the fat man device. The divers description doesn't quite match the bomb, I am guessing it is an old ships boiler or condenser.

Piles of conspiracy theories around that B36 crash.

It did crash on the BC mainland, sans bomb. I'll be following the story and provide an update.

 

[p51]

There's more than that out there. You can Google this, but there are a few live nukes that went missing after collisions and crashes, where the DoD and DoE knows the rough area where they must be, but have never been able to find them. One is inside the continental US...

 

[MisterCairo]

There's more than that out there. You can Google this, but there are a few live nukes that went missing after collisions and crashes, where the DoD and DoE knows the rough area where they must be, but have never been able to find them. One is inside the continental US...

THAT is unreal! Gives import to the warning "call before you dig"!

 

[Otter]

The Tybee bomb is still out there as well so watch out if you are enjoying an afternoon fishing !

It would make a super cool retro 50's garden ornament.

 

[MisterGrey]

Discovered it? Hell, I've known where it is for twenty years. I grew up there!

 

[Stearmen]

Don't forget the B-47, Mars Bluff, South Carolina 1958!

 

[MisterCairo]

Broken Arrow (1996):

Giles Prentice: A Broken what?

Secretary Baird: Broken Arrow. It's a Class 4 Strategic Theatre Emergency. It's what we call it when we lose a nuclear weapon.

Giles Prentice: I don't know what's scarier, losing nuclear weapons, or that it happens so often there's actually a term for it.

 

[p51]

There's code words for everything that can go wrong with a nuke. Empty Quiver is actually the most correct code word that's be used in the case of that movie referenced above...
Nucflash is self-explanatory and the one nobody ever wants to hear!

 

[Otter]

For better or worse it has been confirmed by the Canadians as just a piece of machinery. There was an article on the bbc news website this morning.

 

[MisterCairo]

Yes, the Royal Canadian Navy's HMCS Yellowknife went out, with the diver who discovered this thing, and using a remote vehicle determined it's a piece of industrial equipment, in fact a large part of one (origin unknown):

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/briti...sterious-b-c-coastal-object-no-bomb-1.3868632