U.S. Navy Detonates 40,000-Pound Bomb off Florida Coast

[babylonsister]

https://www.ecowatch.com/navy-explosion-atlantic-ocean-florida-2653526624.html

A few weeks old, but first I've heard of this.

U.S. Navy Detonates 40,000-Pound Bomb off Florida Coast
Common Dreams
Jun. 24, 2021 11:35AM EST
Oceans
The U.S. Navy uses live explosives in the Atlantic Ocean.
By Brett Wilkins


Marine mammal experts this week expressed deep concern over the potentially devastating effects of the U.S. Navy's recent detonation of 40,000 pounds of explosives off the Atlantic coast of Florida on sea life, while progressive observers blasted what they called the government's misplaced spending priorities.

The Navy set off the massive blast — which registered as a magnitude 3.9 earthquake on shore — on June 18 about 100 miles off Palm Coast as the first in a series of full ship shock trials on the USS Gerald R. Ford, a $12.8 billion nuclear-powered aircraft carrier commissioned in 2017.

"The U.S. Navy conducts shock trials of new ship designs using live explosives to confirm that our warships can continue to meet demanding mission requirements under harsh conditions they might encounter in battle," the Navy explained in a press release.

The statement claimed the explosion occurred "within a narrow schedule that complies with environmental mitigation requirements, respecting known migration patterns of marine life in the test area."

The region is home to various marine mammal species including bottlenose dolphins, humpback whales, and North Atlantic right whales. While whales are not typically seen off the northern Florida coast in June, marine experts nevertheless expressed alarm over potential harm to mammals and other sea life.

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https://www.ecowatch.com/navy-explosion-atlantic-ocean-florida-2653526624.html

[Timewas]

1. Coincidence

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=At+what+time+did+the+Florida+condo+collapse%3F&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjGuvi75tjxAhVTu54KHZheBOMQzmd6BAg9EBM&biw=1280&bih=590

[babylonsister]

3. Holy moly. I really wonder if

these are related??

[BGBD]

6. There is video of the explosion posted

on the 20th and the collapse happened the morning of the 24th. I also believe this explosion took place off the coast of Florida at Daytona Beach, not Miami. That's over 200 miles away.


I doubt there's any connection.

[Devil Child]

2. The explosion is standard and required for shock trials of all new hulls for the USN

Any harm to ocean life, which I'm sure there was, is negligible in the grand scheme of things.

[babylonsister]

4. I don't like this grand scheme. nt

[Devil Child]

5. One day of industrial fishing, pollution, and commerical/passenger traffic

Not to mention all the other variables make this one test insignificant in the mass oceanic-death going on daily.

Don't really like this grand scheme either but its what we got.