You don’t always have to crack open a textbook to find some history. Sometimes it’s right under your nose and all you have to do is a little digging.
In Poland, for example, this dangerous piece of history was just beneath the water’s surface ready to make itself known in a big way.
The biggest World War Two bomb ever found in Poland exploded under water on Tuesday as navy divers tried to defuse it.
More than 750 people had been evacuated from the area near the Piast Canal outside the town of Swinoujscie where the Tallboy bomb used by Britain’s Royal Air Force (RAF) was found. It weighed nearly 12,000 lbs, including almost 5,300 lbs of explosive.
“The deflagration process turned into detonation. The object can be considered as neutralized, it will not pose any more threat,” Second-Lieutenant Grzegorz Lewandowski, the spokesman of the 8th Coastal Defense Flotilla, was quoted as saying by state-run news agency PAP.
Luckily no one was harmed during the detonation, and the video footage that captured the incident was stunning.
The biggest WWII bomb ever found in Poland exploded underwater today as the Polish Navy worked to defuse it. The Tallboy bomb weighed almost 12,000 lbs, including 5,000 lbs of explosives. A spokesperson said no one was injured and divers were at a safe distance. pic.twitter.com/aXVpH1t03c
— Jarek Andrzejewski (@Local4Jarek) October 14, 2020
