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Image of the operation that removed the pump from Elizabeth Reef in Australia.
A 45-kilogram unexploded ordnance was towed away, five months after it was first found on a coral reef in Australia.
It was a fisherman who made the find on Lord Howe Island off the coast of New South Wales. Defense personnel warned that the explosive charge posed a serious danger to the public, the AAP news agency reports.
Recently, however, military divers managed to carefully remove the bomb by first bringing it to the surface and then towing it out to sea, where it was dropped 550 meters into the water again.
– It’s a really safe depth. Never again will you be dragged to the reef. No deep sea fishing or trawling is allowed, only recreational fishing, says Marine Park Officer John Pritchard.
The origin of the bomb is unclear, but explosive devices of that size were used as early as World War I, when they were sometimes dropped from airplanes.
