It could be the quintessential Rhode Island Bomb Squad story, because it involved grenades and clams. It happened a few years ago when a Rhode Island fishing boat hauled in more than clams while dragging off New Jersey, according to Deputy Thomas Groff, commander of the Explosive Operations Division for the Office of the State Fire Marshal.
That’s a long way of saying he’s in charge of the bomb squad. According to Groff, ships returning to the United States from World War II would often dump their unused explosives at sea to avoid the hassle of dealing with them back on land. Fast-forward more than seven decades, and a fishing boat out of Rhode Island dredged through a dump site. The explosive catch was discovered at the boat’s processing plant in Warren.
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Source: The Providence Journal News
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