Canadian Divers Find WWII Bombs on US Shipwrecks Off Newfoundland Coast
The Royal Canadian Navy will be continuing to survey wreck sites and said there will be further updates as “we navigate through history to secure our present”
By News on the Net -- The Maritime Executive—— Bio and Archives--July 22, 2023
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Divers from the Royal Canadian Navy are conducting underwater surveys looking for potential risks among old shipwrecks. On Thursday they reported that they have located more than a dozen 227 kg bombs and numerous artillery projectiles among the wreckage of two U.S. ships lost off the coast of Newfound 81 years ago. Depending on their findings, the RCN says subsequent operations may be required.
In their latest mission, Maritime Explosive Ordnance Disposal Divers
from the Fleet Diving Unit (Atlantic), alongside Port Inspection Divers
from HMCS Cabot, the land-based training unit in St. John’s,
Newfoundland and Labrador, were sent to survey the wrecks from two
WWII-era U.S. vessels. The Navy was aware that the two vessels, the USS Pollux and the USS Truxtun,
were loaded with WWII ordnance. The divers mission was to survey the
underwater debris to determine what remains after all these years. ---More...
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