Did a Solar Storm Detonate Deep Sea Mines During the Vietnam War?

Vietnam formed a task force called GK1 to research how to safely detonate those mines during the war. According to them the mines at Hòn La were detonated due to lightning stroke nearby.

Source: all 11 members of GK1 were from my university. I still remember the first day at school and they were talking about how they provided engineering effort for the war (bazooka clone, sea mines clearance, 2nd Mig pilot to downed a B52 etc..) but I'm sure some of them are just propaganda.

> In the United States, sparks burst out of telegraph equipment, sometimes starting fires.

> Should such an event happen today—when our lives our so intricately linked to technology—the results could be catastrophic, causing mass power losses and disruptions to GPS and satellite communications.

I wonder what would be affected if this was to happen today. Would it only be power distribution, or telecoms as well?

Curious if it set off mines underwater but had no effect on the planes flying above the area. You’d think they would at least have noticed some unusual radio interference.

(My partner just pointed out that it was probably Bruce the Shark that’s set them off. :P )

to avoid such mines ships are de-magnetized. I never though heard of "over-pulse-magnetizing/etc." of de-mining ships (or even say low&slow flying planes) as a way to trigger those mines from a safe distance - a de-mining approach that the solar flare triggered explosions suggest.