Exclusive full video of the Royal Canadian Navy’s probe of massive underwater metallic object thought to be a lost nuclear bomb from a United States Air Force B-36 Peacemaker that crashed in 1950 during a secret Cold War mission.
In 1950, when the Soviet Union and the West were on the brink of nuclear war, a US Air Force intercontinental bomber on a war games mission off the coast of Western Canada crashed after catastrophic engine failure. Before the crew parachuted out, they jettisoned their atomic bomb over the water. The massive B-36 strategic bomber then crashed into the remote mountains of British Columbia. Five crew members died.
But the nuke was never found. It was the first known lost nuclear bomb, a scenario now referred to as a “Broken Arrow” incident.
The accident was shrouded in secrecy for much of the Cold War. The plane’s crash site was located and a U.S. forces team flew in, removed sensitive material and then destroyed the wreckage of the downed plane. The co-pilot said the bomb was detonated over the water. The U.S. air force said the bomb — while packed with 5,000 pounds of TNT, did not have its plutonium core that was needed for a nuclear detonation. Still, it has spawned conspiracy theories, speculation, official search missions and unofficial sleuthing.
The mysterious crash came back into the headlines in 2016 after a diver found an unusual metal object off the coast of British Columbia, not far from where the B-36 started its fall. The diver said he’d never seen anything like it before, even pondering whether it was alien. When he first came out of the water he told his buddies he’d just found a UFO. When the diver told an old-timer fisherman about it, he was told he might have found the lost nuke. When the diver Googled it, he was struck by how similar the interior of an old Mark IV nuclear bomb was to the object he found. The diver alerted Canadian authorities.
In November 2016, the Royal Canadian Navy deployed the HMCS Yellowknife, a maritime coastal defence vessel, to search the coastal waters south of Prince Rupert, B.C.
Here is the previously unreleased video footage of the Navy’s underwater exploration of the object, released exclusively to The Mob Reporter through an information request.
With the help of the diver, the crew used onboard sonar systems, a remotely operated underwater vehicle and a dive team. On Nov. 22, 2016, the Navy found the object of interest eight metres below the surface. The Navy says it was not an unexploded military munition and poses no threat to local residents. Presumably that means it is not part of the B-36, but the Navy isn’t entirely sure exactly what it is.
The official finding is the object is a steel piece of industrial equipment measuring about 5 1/2 metres across and one metre high. It appears to be a metal part of a larger machine assembly and was once painted yellow.
Suggestions on what it is could be are most welcome in the comments below.
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HMCS Yellowknife is a Kingston-class Maritime Coastal Defence Vessel (MCDV) first launched in 1997. MCDVs are multi-role minor war vessels with a primary mission of coastal surveillance and patrol, including general naval operations and exercises, search and rescue, law enforcement, resource protection and fisheries patrols.
The B-36 was the first genuine intercontinental bomber. It was a massive airplane, with the longest wingspan of any combat aircraft ever built, at 230 feet (70.1 metres), with a flying range of 10,000 miles (16,000 km) without refueling.
Underwater video and photos of HMCS Yellowknife: Canada’s Department of National Defence; Archival footage of B-36: U.S. Department of Defense; Bomb photos: United States government; Added music is "Swamp Atmos" by DL Sounds ([ Ссылка ]).
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