Royal Navy EOD divers have successfully disabled a piece of World War 2 ordnance on the southern shore of the Bristol Channel.
Called to a report of an unknown object exposed by an unusually low tide a few hundred meters off the National Trust beach at Middle Hope, north of the Somerset holiday resort of Weston-Super-Mare, the team from Devonport’s Southern Diving Unit 1 carried out a controlled explosion on the device.
The piece of WW2 ordnance turned out to be an anti-submarine mortar bomb, thought to have been used in the area when the near-by MOD weapon research facility was in operation.
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Source: Maritime Executive