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kskiska Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-20-08 12:27 PM
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Navy says explosive device could wash up near San Diego hotel
Source: Mercury News

SAN DIEGO - The Navy says an explosive device that malfunctioned during a training exercise is missing in the ocean near the Hotel del Coronado in San Diego and could pose a danger should it wash up on the beach.

The device is a time-delay demolition charge used to blow up enemy mines.

They Navy says it was attached to a fake mine in an explosives drill 300 yards off the coast on Friday. The primary charge exploded as intended, but did not trigger a complete detonation.

Read more: http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_8027532
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TwilightGardener Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-20-08 12:32 PM
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1. Well, isn't that special? "Hey mommy, look what I found!"
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tularetom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-20-08 12:47 PM
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2. WTF are they doing testing depth charges 300 yards offshore?
The water isn't even deep enough to get a realistic test of how it would work. Not to mention how stupid they'd feel if it blowed up the Coronado Hotel.

The navy's a big economic presence in SD but I doubt they'd be able to live that one down.
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-20-08 02:33 PM
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14. It's not like they don't have a whole island offshore to play with
:eyes:
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Thothmes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-20-08 05:07 PM
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18. Wasn't a depth charge
It was a package of about 10 lbs. of high grade explosives used to detonate mines. The dummy practice mines were at about 300 ft depth.
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humbled_opinion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-20-08 12:51 PM
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3. This makes me seriously question the abilities of our
Military... WTF is the Pentagon doing?
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PsN2Wind Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-20-08 01:00 PM
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4. You expect perfection for only
600 or 700 billion a year.
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humbled_opinion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-20-08 01:14 PM
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5. lol
Is that all it is ....really... Thought our defense budget was in the 13 figure range by now...
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bahrbearian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-20-08 01:15 PM
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6. Collateral Damage
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liberal N proud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-20-08 01:15 PM
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7. What were they doing using the Hotel Del as a target an missed?
That is a public beach area, why are they exploding devices that close to public areas?

:wtf:
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0007 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-20-08 01:48 PM
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9. The military is full of stupid wankers trying hard to make an impression
on junior & his little dick.

Toilet monsters! Guess who??
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Zorro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-20-08 02:27 PM
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12. SEAL Training
The SEAL's home base is just south of the hotel.
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liberal N proud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-20-08 05:08 PM
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19. Yeah I am aware that North Island is right there
I use to swim at that beach all the time, never saw any action from the military. Doesn't the Navy have a beach just north of there for Navy families?
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Zorro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-20-08 05:13 PM
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20. Not North Island
That's where the carriers tie up.

SEAL base is south of the hotel, at the beginning of the Silver Strand.
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tomhayes Donating Member (476 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-20-08 06:16 PM
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21. Where the SEALS train and the Del are only BLOCKS away from each other
Edited on Sun Jan-20-08 06:17 PM by tomhayes
&tabGoing south From Coronado towards IB it's:
Hotel Del  ---- The Shores Condos------ Naval Amphibious Base.

It's completely understandable that something like would
happen. I've seen the SEALS pop-up on the public beach and
scare surfers for fun.

http://maps.google.com/maps?client=safari&rls=en-us&q=coronado+google+maps&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&um=1&sa=N=wl

The Dell are the structures with the red shingles, the SEAL
raining area is directly across from Glorieta bay park.

(And the Swastika shaped building complex you may have seen on
Google maps is a few blocks away at:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&time=&date=&ttype=&q=coronado,+ca&ie=UTF8&ll=32.676215,-117.157677&spn=0.002707,0.004592&t=h&z=19&om=0
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Sam Ervin jret Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-20-08 01:21 PM
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8. I hope they don't send the same guy to look for it that they did to look for Bin Laden or WMD or
the missing emails from Cheney or the billions of dollars missing in Iraq or the 100,000 of guns missing there or the explosives missing from there or our constitutional rights, our common decency, our reputation in the world,.........MY GOD I THINK I'VE DISCOVERED ANOTHER BLACK HOLE!!! RIGHT HERE ON OUR VERY PLANET!! WHAM!!! STUFF just disappears. (except the crap)
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Yael Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-20-08 03:23 PM
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15. LOL!!
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thunder rising Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-20-08 04:08 PM
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16. Hoot!!!
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Ilsa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-22-08 01:08 PM
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32. "Nope. No unexploded ordnance over here..." nt
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LuckyLib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-20-08 01:48 PM
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10. Where is "Homeland Security" when you need it? Oh, that's right . . . the Navy IS part of HS.
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Eurobabe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-20-08 02:25 PM
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11. Christ on a stick
That is a beautiful hotel and beach. WTF is the Navy doing -- training exercises in front of the Del?? This section of the island is a historic district!
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Thothmes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-20-08 05:03 PM
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17. The Navy has been using those beaches
since the beginning of WWII.
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Eurobabe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-21-08 12:24 AM
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23. Isn't that lovely
:eyes:
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hack89 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-21-08 08:49 AM
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25. They have been training there for 40 years
the amphibious base and the SEALS are right next door.
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NBachers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-20-08 02:28 PM
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13. Maybe they want it to float down to Mexico
and blow up a bunch of Illegal People down there.
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krispos42 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-20-08 06:53 PM
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22. I guess now we know how the Cambodians feel.
Or the Bosnians, or the Serbs, or the Croats.
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minnesota_liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-21-08 07:55 AM
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24. This probably happened several miles up- or downshore from the hotel in question
Edited on Mon Jan-21-08 07:55 AM by minnesota_liberal
I seriously doubt that the Navy was playing with explosives barely 1 city block offshore from a hotel.
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tomhayes Donating Member (476 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-22-08 01:27 AM
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27. It's about 1/2 mile from the SEAl training facility to the Hotel.
See the maps I posted
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Felix Mala Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-21-08 09:18 AM
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26. Most people don't realize its historic significance, used in dozens of movies.
Edited on Mon Jan-21-08 09:18 AM by Feles Mala
It was a Florida resort in Some Like it Hot. The exterior was used repeatedly in the fine Peter O'Toole film, The Stunt Man.
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itsrobert Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-22-08 01:41 AM
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28. Hotel Del is a republican haven
Reagan and Bush have held huge fund-raisers there.
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tomhayes Donating Member (476 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-22-08 02:18 AM
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29. To be fair.....
Coronado is where Bill and Hill would vacation.

Coronado is a crazy, crazy place. Crazy nice. Crazy expensive.
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slackmaster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-22-08 11:27 AM
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30. Bill and Hill DID vacation at the "Del" in the '90s
They were very good friends of the late owner M. Larry Lawrence.
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gauguin57 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-22-08 11:33 AM
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31. There are gonna be some interesting reviews of that hotel on TripAdvisor.com!
"Clean rooms, friendly desk clerks, but military ordnance on the beach is annoying."
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