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Well, you'll be glad to know that people like my dad (ATO/EOD) sorted quite a lot of it out back in the day. However, they could only demolish what they were pointed at and as this article notes, there is more that keeps on turning up.

This is a bit of a worry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Richard_Montgomery

I suggest you don't buy property or go swimming nearby to that. I'm going to stick in Somerset.

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Fascinating. Amazing they don’t just evacuate the town and detonate it. Seems like a matter of time before it goes.

I forgot the details, but they did something like that just after one of the world wars in Antwerp. This was a time where anything was allowed to clean up and get the economy rebooted, to deblock a major port. They fired on a ship blocking the port until only iron dust was left. The resulting environmental damage was so bad, all involved decided to never do it again.

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