Skilled divers to defuse WWII ’Tallboy or earthquake bomb’ off Poland
Skilled military divers are going to defuse a massive World War II bomb at the bottom of a channel near the Baltic Sea. The device nicknamed Tallboy or earthquake bomb was dropped by the Royal Air Force in an attack on a Nazi warship in 1945. ~750 local residents are being relocated from an area of 1.6 miles around the bomb. But some residents are going to stay back owing to the fear of Covid-19.
How many expert combo Polish bomb squad/divers does it take to screw in a light bulb? Sorry...wrong joke.
Shows how sexist they were back then. It's "Tall Person Bomb" now thank you very much
There is plenty of warehouse space in Beirut. Just toss it in there like they do.
Hopefully the Poles don't get teamkilled by the RAF decades later. Goodluck boys.
Why not just drop another bomb onto it?
Why does it sound like a WW2 nuke?
Tin foil hat anyone?
...and it blows up. Oopsie.
Always amazes me
... and boom.... maybe not that skilled eh.
glad they did not choose the unskilled military divers...
Why not use low skilled workers, it would be a great work for the dole initiative.
Make merkel disarm it with a hammer
Weird -- the article mentions that it was discovered during a dredging, embedded 12m into the bottom of the channel... which means most likely that it was found when the machinery hit it and a loud thud/metallic clank sound was heard. Yet they are evacuating everyone because they say the "slightest vibration" could set it off. Mmmhhmm.