Course he may not have worked for the CIA...................

crystal10
Well done, can't you keep anything quiet ?

And is it such a big deal you have to announce it when those who know, know
and those who don't need to know don't ?

Welcome back 500 - how were Mick, Wally and the crocs?

Never mind learning the 3 Rs - he should at least remember over a 3-day period what his story is:

6 Jan 12:59
Many years ago (1970's) I used to throw sticks of dynamite (when you didn't need a licence to obtain dynamite for "blowing up tree stumps") into Cornish coves whilst in a wooden rowing boat. I would then jump into the water with a rope around my waist & use a net to sweep all the dead fish into. They would be sold to many restaurants in the Mawgan Porth/Newquay area.


9 Jan 21:54
Amusing. Well, from the resident "chimp" - in the 1960's (I was about 8) I used to go fishing with my dad off Mawgan Porth bay in Cornwall. He had a friend who had a licence for dynamite. We used to go out in a rowing boat & dad would chuck a stick of dynamite into the sea. Every fish within about 50 metres would float to the surface & we would go into the water on roaps with a life-bouy, fill them with fish & sell them in Newquay:confused:.

Can you spot any inconsistencies in these two versions:hmm:? Unless of course he went out unacompanied when he was in his teens in the '70s.

Shall we give him the benefit of the doubt?

Mister B

crystal10,

In case anyone had forgotten:

Why should we care who anyone here is? Play the ball, not the player.

SAM

I was there. Have been in most inlets and coves around Padstow / Cornwall area.

"if you were aircrew" - if you had read any of my posts on here, you would know that is a stupid question.

HTB
" Never mind learning the 3 Rs - he should at least remember over a 3-day period what his story is:"

Well good to see he can go from spelling the word rope to spelling the word roap in 3 days.

"how were Mick, Wally and the crocs ?" are good except I don't use 2 fingers to put a Buffalo on the ground.:O

Well, you know the old adage: "give a a man enough roap and he'll hnag himself"

Mister B

Explains all the bull****!:rolleyes:

Reminisces of catching fish by rupturing their swim bladders with explosives don't really relate to exploding mines - which are metal, not soft tissue, and don't have swim bladders. Or lateral lines through which the nervous system can be overloaded.
Picking up on GrahamO's question:
anyone know if any kind of trials were ever done on clearing mines using area denial weapons similar to JP233 or cluster bombs fused to detonate below the surface? Someone somewhere must have tried it - did it work?
Or a thermobaric fuel/air bomb exploded over the water (something like the Vietnam-era daisy cutters)???

Why is the US 'defence' budget greater than the next 99 highest nations defence budgets combined?

I personally think it's because they're far too busy getting involved in business that is none of their business.

Apologies for any grammatical errors.

Vietnam Era "LZ Cutters" were 10,000 pound High Explosive bombs dropped by C-130's or CH-54 Sky Crane Helicopters. They were fairly effective at making an instant LZ in the Jungle....and simultaneously supressing any hostile fire from the newly created wood line! The current version is a 15,000 pound device nick named "Moab".


http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ute_bomb_c.jpg

As water is incompressible....and the sea has far more resistance than air....what good would it do?

If my Eighth grade physics class holds....everything in life seeks the path of least resistance.

SAM

"We have a number of VERY sad posters whose only aim is to denigrate other people who are FAR more current in a/c operations/weapons tactics than us old bu****s. So be it. The 500N's, Tourists etc can only make a mockery....."

And you are not one of them or you wouldn't sprout BS on a forum such as this about U2 chase cars as well as a heap of other BS that isn't worth repeating.

We only make a mockery when we know it is BS, if you posted relevant "current a/c operations/weapons tactics" you might not cop it so bad.

Anyway, go and drop your Nuclear depth charge and get it over and done with.

It is imperative that we activate all available SWAT teams to arrest COCL2 and all his etcs.

Can't have these foreign agent jonnies running loose sucking up vital intel from pprune - some of it might be real and relevant.

Mister B

You've said goodbye before, on more than one occasion, but still seem to come back.

I have absolutely NO knowledge regarding the use, capabilities of a nuclear underwater device but for those that advocate its use or any other 'big bang' weapon, have they thought about the consequences for all the oil rigs in that area and will this weapon remove the threat of ALL these mines? I have no idea but not all mines are of the 'contact' type.

I just cannot believe anyone would contemplate the use of this type of weapon... What about the minefields on the Falklands? A small nuclear weapon should clear those areas!! Tongue in cheek comment.

Fishing close to rocks on the southern coasts of Devon and Cornwall
I say the southern coast just because I have not fished on the Atlantic side of this beautiful area of our country.

Before becoming a full time mattress tester I took great enjoyment in jumping into a boat and dropping a hook or two into the deep blue sea. (mackerel at least four hooks ;))

Fishing near rocks would in my opinion be the best location to catch wrasse and certainly not mackerel. Apologies for going off topic but the chance to share those happier days and the experiences was something I could not avoid doing. Never tasted wrasse, never wanted to, but it aint no mackerel. Why on earth anyone would use explosives is beyond me and is that a legal way to fish? A question

first time anyone has ever complained of my asking pertinent questions, I usually get yelled at for impertinent ones....

Glojo,

[CONSERVATION] I'm pleased to report that dynamite (and cyanide) fishing is now illegal just about everywhere. I still come across evidence of illegal dynamiting in places like Thailand, but they're getting bewtter at policing. It is so destructive: kills way more fish than you ever recover and it does decades or centuries of damage to reefs. [/CONSERVATION]

I don't know much about this either, but can tell that nukes as depth bombs need to be small yield for use at depths less than 40m to avoid damage to other shipping. WE177 was selectable to 10kT for just this purpose.

Courtney

SAM, I have a weakness.

I can't help mocking those poor people deeply afflicted by severe munchaus-bull****-waltitis.

I am getting treatment.


Incidentally, I can only hope that enemy nations are using this thread to base their operational estimates on.

Judging by the traffic over Northumberland today, any operation will be a Tornado GR4 off.

Using a nuclear bomb of any sort to try and detonate mines in the water, when you don't know where the mines are, is sort of like trying to kill mosquitoes with buckshot in a dark concert hall.

Bloody good laff though.

Iran car explosion kills nuclear scientist in Tehran
 

It seems that someone, somewhere is trying to cause problems to Iran's nuclear project.

From the BBC;

BBC News - Iran car explosion kills nuclear scientist in Tehran


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