Underwater british WW2 mine

[8nocivo4]

As Mc Hammer would say... CANT TOUCH THIS....

[ItsDtownMayn]

....touch it

[evilbunnyreviews]

Blow it up

[RickAHyatt]

next time you go opihi picking... Watch out Ko'oloawe!

[Rapta6]

IT LOOKS DEACTIVATED

[ForFREEDOM13]

touch the little rods sticking out @_@

[karlcolt]

That looks like its still LIVE!!!

[RickAHyatt]

@karlcolt tap with hammer on the horns. Will clear any sinus problems you might have, permanently.

[mursulesku]

Deactivated !

[karlcolt]

@mursulesku Hum! Not it's not!!! It looks very much ALIVE!!!

[1658544]

these have always fasinated me. i mean what do they look like on the inside? dont these things fasinate anyone else?

[hoffmachine]

@1658544 yeah me. I think they're horrifying and fascinating at the same time.....

[baconat3r]

Looks like a big hunk of shit

[mikkoyay]

I know you wanna hit that, i know you wanna hit that, hit that...

[Gizord1]

I dare you a $100 to hit one of the hertz horn fuses

[Aplonis]

If it sank, then it probably rusted through and lost it's captive are. Salt water leaking in would have disabled the components. Geneva Convention prescribes that mines self-sterilize just this way after one year. On some, a timer simply sets off a smaller charge that pokes a hole in the side to let water in, sinking and disabling it.

Gan Starling, ex MN3 USN

[AwwC00L]

@Aplonis these are chemical reaction mines they can still go off as long as the vials inside have not broken and more than likely they are still intact. there was an incident a few years ago off the shore of panama a cruise ship hit one and it suck it

[Aplonis]

@AwwC00L Correcting my typo of 6 months go, not "are" but "air". If sunk it has lost its captive air. Sea water has gotten inside. The acid inside the hertz horn, even if the glass vile is intact, will run down it's copper tube into fulminate of mercury which is no longer there, it having been dissolved away. Likewise the TNT, picric acid, or whatever will have been contaminated by the sea water and no longer viable. But only because it has sunk. If it were buoyant, or floating, well...

[rcbif101]

so are these reported and destroyed?

[fletcher15453]

@rcbif101 why would anyone report one of these? its so beautiful....

[0176511]

you have to touch it! -.- booring

[conradmilligan]

i hear if you hit it really hard with a hammer, you will then receive a prize!!

[DynamoDylan]

where is this co ordinates please!

[regg3y]

Being as the mine is on the sea bed, the firing circits should have been broken by the mooring lever under the body of the mine. This is a safety measure to stop floating or sunken mines actuating when they shouldn't.

I wouldn't trust this.

[08wambo]

touch that shit ha

[mrantihippie]

pop the balloon!!!

[Keither9]

any of these anywhere called unexploded ordenance? England and seems like everywhere their were reports of unexploaded units left after the WW2,,, think we could find names for 1 & 2? WW sounds a bit redundit.

[MeteorArmageddon]

what song is this?

[AdurianJ]

It's got intact Hertz horns that meas only the ones on the bottom could have malfunctioned and the the remaining horns are still 100% functional.

What the horn contains is basically a dry battery and when the horn which is made of a soft metal like lead is crushed a glass vial is crushed that contains acid which energises the battery which detonates the explosives.

[racingchamp101]

ka-BOOOOOOOOM!!

[blackhawk438]

why don't you take it home with you. Use it as a coat hanger. (hand you coat on the spike.)

[6047223521]

This mine was used in a barracade set up by the british navy in 1939-1943 to try to stop u boats from entering coastal ports.

[JCtherocks]

try to push in that little spikes and see what happens =P

[davetileguy]

shoot it with your speargun!

[1RigO88]

...and boom

[siganarchy]

hit it with a hammer,see if it still works.

[1RigO88]

of course it does.. that mine can blown up after many years.

[jrkepler]

Wow, those things are spooky. Have you ever seen any of these still on the chain?

[darkblue126]

what.. it never blew up... lame!!!

[aMAUSER98k]

after all those years laying there its still live right?

[loudmeter1]

yo ninja your actually a faggot for saying its fake you dont know jack shit

AHHHHH people like you piss me off

[greene825]

hah the funny thing is that hes probably just fucking around and your the dumbass. chill the fuck out internet police

[bertrandsciboz]

What is fake ?????

[lexmark136]

@bertrandsciboz ur tits

[bigfatjoe1992]

Seamines came in all shapes an sizes. Still do.

[rowinglove4ever]

i will give you my house, my car and all my money

if you take a hammer and bang the detonation sestem

[Killjoy3990]

@rowinglove4ever throw in your first born child and i'll think about it

[Yozits]

@rowinglove4ever maybe it is not a good idea, because it's kown that some fishermans had caught some of this in the northen seas and are using them as gardens beauty or even for barbercues (slash a mine in the midle).

[Almightyrastus]

@rowinglove4ever twat

[Schou89]

take on it: D haha it is just a small poff, if it works

[OCHMONEK57]

Wonderful song !

[Vid12]

those are called Hertz Horns, pressure on the horn breaks a vial of acid inside the horn, which then causes an electyrochemical reaction(battery-like) which completes the firing circuit and detonates the mine. thats why even after 60 years, these mines can still fire.

[AGDemo]

@Vid12 Ouch!

[rubyspaceship1o1]

@Vid12 nice now find one and hit it with a hammer lol just kiddin'.

[Philscbx]

@Vid12

Thanks,

I tried to imagine seals trying to keep water out.

That's pretty clever.

[goddammitreggieray]

you should have kicked it

[bbsloveme]

10 bucks if ya touch it.

[soapandwafflesrule]

actully i do it beacuse it only maters WHERE u touch it see thso spiky thingy u touch those u die

[bbsloveme]

well i mean youd probably get 10 bucks cuz the fuses are arnt all that sensitive. you could probably touch em and youd be fine. just dont smack em with a hammer.

[thomasbhunter007]

Bummer - I thought they were going to blow it up.