Re: Deadliness in the deep - thank you US Navy


"Matthias Voss" <spammat.voss@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Douglas W. "Popeye" Frederick wrote:
>
> > "The Thunder Child" <thethunderchild@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> >
> >>>From October 30 to November 1, there was a series of articles in the
> >>Hampton Daily News about all of the chemical weapons - for example
> >>mustard gas, that the U. S. Navy threw overboard from its vessels from
> >>the late 1940s, until they stopped in 1972. They didn't dump this
> >>stuff off only our own shores, of course, but around the world.
> >
> >
> > Smart thinking, eh wot?
> >
> >
> >>And, they no longer know where all this stuff is.
> >>
> >>Many fishermen in Europe have apparently been injured by toxins
> >>escaping from their deteriorating containers, and way back in '97 quite
> >>a few dead dolphins washed ashore, their bodies burned as if by mustard
> >>gas.
> >>
> >>And I remembered an episode of Sea Hunt, from 1961, I think (10 years
> >>before the US stopped the practice) of diver Leonard Nimoy getting sick
> >>and dying thanks to exposure to some nerve gas underwater, having dove
> >>to close to an underwater depository of the stuff.
> >>
> >>So I'm wondering, has this made front-page news anywhere else except
> >>Hampton Roads?
> >
> >
> > I dunno.
> >
> > Last I heard, salt water renders mustard gas completely impotent.
>
> It does. But that does not hold for the "gas still in the
> barrels. The problem is that fisherman, may they get hurt (
> which they sometimes do) who catch a barrel in their net,
> dump it again at another place. So Lost and Sarin barrels
> from the originally well known dumping grounds ( like
> Gotland Ditch) may spread.

You'd think with so many of these barrels being dredged up, it would be
easy to find one to corroborate the story.

Not to mention all these "burned" fishermen would have verifiable medical
charts.

It's just anti-American bull***.

> Once the barrel or corroded completely, the gas is quickly
> neutralized.
>
> Matthias
>


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