America's lost H-bomb

[Deep South Divers]

America's Lost H-Bomb is airing on the Science Channel right now.

It's also on tonight at 2am.

Schedule: The Science Channel :: TV Listings :: America's Lost H-Bomb

Hope y'all enjoy the show.

 

[The Kraken]

Hey, SJ . . .

Next time I'm down in Savannah and tYb, let's get together.

the K

 

[Deep South Divers]

I'd like that a lot, Kraken. I've known you for what - like a decade? All the good and bad...

Dude, I'd love to meet up. We should have met when I was doing the GA Aquarium job there in Atlanta.

If you come this way, bring your dive gear.

 

[bell8769]

I got all excited but it was just an old boiler.. .... And the tritium on my watch wasnt super charged

 

[Deep South Divers]

Hunh?

 

[Armyguy38]

Funny,

 

[Superlyte27]

Let's think about this a minute...

Lost nuke at the bottom of the ocean, subjected to salt water corrosion for over fifty years, possibly leaching hazardous radioactive waste into the water.

I don't know about the rest of you, but were I on a team trying to locate and evaluate the potential for recovering said nuke, I wouldn't be diving atop where I thought it might be. Radiation can have some really nasty effects on the human body, and my inclination would be to use remote submersibles with cameras to try and locate it, rather than risk radiation sickness or cancer from exposure to a leaking bomb.

Documentaries aside, my own personal opinion is, if they're diving for it, they're fairly certain they're NOT in the right location. At least, I wouldn't risk radiation poisoning for the sake of filming a documentary about a missing bomb.

Pfft, try diving inside a nuclear reactor every day for two months straight

 

[Superlyte27]

. This is not the same as a nuclear reactor dumping waste into a river in large quantities over time, exposure to highly radioactive material, or being close to a sustained chain reaction.

Um, which waste is going into a river exactly?
The water comes from the river or ocean, gets swirled around a heat exchanger (i'm dumbing it down) then gets dumped back into the ocean. It never comes into contact with ANYTHING radioactive.

I've dove in this system from intake to exhaust thousands of times.

 

[LIVES4SHARKS]

I keep diving offshore and have yet to find it. But as mucky as it can be out there, it's no wonder it hasn't been found yet. But with ever increasing survey technology, who knows what they will come up with. Maybe that is why our spiny lobsters are so big way offshore...IJS

Carolyn:shark2:

 

[Renner.alan@gmail.com]

It never ceases to amaze me how people can get so worked up over radiation... since we live our lives bathed in it.
By and large these isotopes are heavy metals so they aren't going to be floating around in the water column, and since water is one of the best radiation shields you would have to be laying on the bottom within a few inches to get ANY exposure.

So swim around it all you like, it won't hurt you. AR