Bomb Squad Kilcoole Beach

Cheeky Chops

Anyone know what was going on? Bomb squad, motorbike cops, traffic cops, army .. loads of them. Mad! Apparently there was a bomb in a house but that came secondhand.

Son of Jack

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Cheeky Chops

Thanks but why were they down the beach with their lights flashing an hour ago?!!

Rasmus

Son of Jack, do you know that both links refer to the same incident? Cheeky Chops, keep us posted! Maybe post in the Greystones forum though for more web traffic?

Cheeky Chops

Ok apparently the one down the beach was a second world war "object" that they believed at the time may have been a bomb hence all the units out.

Rasmus

But it wasn't then? What is it? : )

Cheeky Chops

Well I heard it was a buoy from that period but you couldn't mistake a buoy for a bomb could you?

That's not a very sexy story either .. bomb squad find buoy...:D

Rasmus

Well maybe not a bomb, but didn't sea-mines look a little like buoys when they were jutting out of the water?

lconmara

it was most likely an anti-submarine device from ww2. looked pretty much like a sea mine... the guards were called for advice when it was dug up and they decided it was too risky to deem it safe and called the bomb squad. It took them three hours to determine what it was - it wasn't obvious to them either that it wasn't a bomb they even x-rayed it.

Cheeky Chops

Thanks ....

very sexy reply

lconmara

huh?

Alun

lconmara wrote: »

it was most likely an anti-submarine device from ww2. looked pretty much like a sea mine... the guards were called for advice when it was dug up and they decided it was too risky to deem it safe and called the bomb squad. It took them three hours to determine what it was - it wasn't obvious to them either that it wasn't a bomb they even x-rayed it.

What's an 'anti-submarine device' that isn't a mine?

Cheeky Chops

lconmara wrote: »

huh?

I was just joking ..

lconmara

Alun wrote: »

What's an 'anti-submarine device' that isn't a mine?

there were lots of them, this yoke most likely held a chain net that would stop the subs in their tracks...

lconmara

Cheeky Chops wrote: »

I was just joking ..

i reread my answer, couldn't find anything sexy about it. must just be the air about me...

Alun

lconmara wrote: »

there were lots of them, this yoke most likely held a chain net that would stop the subs in their tracks...

I knew about the chains, saw them many times on B&W WW2 films on the telly, but didn't think there'd be much else to them apart from the chains themselves. What would it have been then, a float of some sort that the chains hung down from?

Jammyc

lconmara wrote: »

they even x-rayed it.

Today's Bray People talked about this story.

They quoted the following

Bray People 13th April 2011 wrote:

"They even X-rayed it" said a source

That's journalism there.