Should I have not done that?

Here is a short of me finding and field cleaning a 6 pound Bormann cannon ball under water. I don't recommend banging on an artillery shell with a rock, but it seemed like the thing to do to me at the time. The black powder in the shell has long since decomposed, the bubbles that are leaking from it are a byproduct of that decomposition. It's since been rendered inert and preserved. Whew!

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Education

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• metal
• detecting
• scuba
• underwater
• relics
• civil
• war
• cannon
• fisher
• water

[wojtuniakfrog]

Where was this?

[smartstuff2buy]

@wojtuniakfrog in the water

[aquachigger]

@smartstuff2buy I'm really getting ready to just post "on Earth", but I bite my tongue and do the right thing :)

[aquachigger]

@wojtuniakfrog On the East coast of the U.S.

[wojtuniakfrog]

@aquachigger Which state?

[aquachigger]

@wojtuniakfrog Hold on... Let me look up the GPS coordinates and get right backatcha...

[smartstuff2buy]

@nazimrules he is reptilian

[aquachigger]

@nazimrules Yep. I was SCUBA diving in this video...

[nazimrules]

how you breath that long in water are you scuba diving

[jpf1979james]

I cracked the s### with a bullet with my pick that I thought was a nice gold nugget........................­WOW bang I wont to that again!!

ps. watch for fly bullets in Ballarat lol