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A giant bomb is detonated in the port of Świnoujścieie, Poland. Stock photography from another occasion.
2.4 tons of explosives with enough power to create an earthquake effect. It is a delicate job that awaits the military divers who are now beginning the work of disarming a World War II bomb in northwestern Poland. The work is expected to take up to five days.
– The slightest vibration can trigger the bomb, says Grzegorz Lewandowski, spokesman for the flotilla responsible for the work.
About 750 residents are being evacuated from a 2.5-kilometer area around the bomb.
The so-called Tallboy bomb, discovered last year when the port of Świnoujścieie was to be dredged, was dropped by the British Air Force in an attack on a Nazi warship in 1945.
According to the Polish navy, this is the first time in history that such a well-preserved Tallboy, created to detonate alongside its target and create shock waves, has been disarmed beneath the surface. The best known Tallboy operation is the sinking of the German battleship Tirpitz off Norwegian Tromsø in 1944.
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