October 13, 2018, 08:49 PM | #1 |
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WW2 Magnet Fishing
https://youtu.be/0KawAOjL7HI
A couple of Dutchmen found some seriously cool stuff in a pond. I wonder if their laws allow them to keep any of it -- like the MG-15, for example. For having been under water for over 70 years, some of the stuff is in surprisingly good condition. I wonder if the pond is stagnant, and doesn't have a lot of oxygen in the water. |
October 14, 2018, 01:20 PM | #2 |
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Stagnant just means the water doesn't flow. There's very little oxygen in really deep water. That water, that isn't remotely deep, probably had its O2 used up dissolving plants. It'd have more added by rain fall though. There doesn't appear to be the organisms that feed on organic materials.
Something isn't right about that video. There's not a spec of rust or any kind of corrosion on any of that stuff. Probably buried deep in the mud. Wood is usually the first thing that gets eaten followed by rust forming. That wouldn't happen in O2 deprived mud. Magnets won't pick up stuff like cartridges. Those guys are playing with fire when they pull up a Mills bomb and land mines that have been there for 70 plus years too. And no they wouldn't be allowed to keep any firearm. Belgian and French farmers are forever finding live ordnance, gas shells included, from W.W. I. So much that both countries have active EOD types who do nothing but collect and destroy the stuff.
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October 14, 2018, 05:39 PM | #3 |
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As I am sure y'all have seen on TV, there are guys who harvest sunken old harvest logs that were taken over 100 years ago, such as logging Lake Superior. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archi...=.f4d0b000308b
So you certainly can have preservation via submersion with the right environment.
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I get the impression that video was a marketing gimmick for the magnet company https://magnetarvismagneet.nl/
My two thoughts: The MG looked like it came out of a museum showroom, not the mud in the bottom of a pond. Playing with UXO and magnets does not usually end well. |
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http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-...713-story.html This is the same thing going on with the WWII wood.
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