[CPEO-MEF] MUNITION: UXO removal in Kane'ohe Bay (HI)

[Lenny Siegel]

News Release 
State of Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources
August 27, 2021,

UNEXPLODED ORDNANCE REMOVAL IN KĀNE’OHE BAY IS SUCCESSFUL
   
Dubbed “Operation Kāne’ohe Bay Response” by the Navy’s Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit One Detachment Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD), the bomb was detonated in place because it was considered dangerous because of the presence of armed fuses. 

A second unexploded ordnance (UXO), described as a 1000-pound bomb, was unarmed. It was corroded and had extensive marine life growing on it. After setting underwater charges to take care of the first munition, the same Navy team, brought the second bomb to the surface. It was towed to shore and lifted onto a flatbed truck for disposal at another site. 

Today’s operation began with a briefing from the Navy’s EOD team and focused on maintaining a 2,100-foot circular perimeter to keep people safe and to allow the divers to do their work safely. The DLNR Division of Conservation and Resources Enforcement (DOCARE) deployed a boat and two jet skis and the Navy utilized two vessels to maintain the cordon. There were no instances of civilian boaters being in the area, prior to the UXO removal and for at least a half-hour afterwards. 

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For the entire article, see
https://www.einnews.com/pr_news/549882319/08-26-21-unexploded-ordnance-removal-in-k-ne-ohe-bay-is-successful

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel at cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650-961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org
Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)