UXO team finds and detonates two explosives in North Vancouver

[daftandbarmy]

That's some good PR right there...

UXO team finds and detonates two explosives in North Vancouver​

In 2018, they found 200 kilograms of unexploded mortar shells, practice rounds and grenade parts. They’ll be back this fall to continue the search

Department of National Defence contractors and Canadian Forces members found and detonated two explosives in their latest sweep of North Vancouver’s Blair Rifle Range Lands.

Today, the land off Mount Seymour Parkway is lined with recreational trails but from the 1930s until the 1960s, it was a military training site.

Over February and March, unexploded ordnance (UXO) experts were scouring a two-hectare swath of the lands with metal detectors, which turned up an unexploded three-inch mortal shell, and a fuse used to detonate mortars.

In both cases, the UXO team called in Canadian Forces explosives experts to come to the site, plant charges on the items and detonate them safely, with the public kept away. Based on the explosion the detonation produced, project manager Debbie Nicholls said the mortar shell would have been filled with high explosives.

UXO team finds and detonates two explosives in North Vancouver

In 2018, they found 200 kilograms of unexploded mortar shells, practice rounds and grenade parts. They’ll be back this fall to continue the search

www.nsnews.com

 

[Kat Stevens]

That's some good PR right there...

UXO team finds and detonates two explosives in North Vancouver​

In 2018, they found 200 kilograms of unexploded mortar shells, practice rounds and grenade parts. They’ll be back this fall to continue the search

Department of National Defence contractors and Canadian Forces members found and detonated two explosives in their latest sweep of North Vancouver’s Blair Rifle Range Lands.

Today, the land off Mount Seymour Parkway is lined with recreational trails but from the 1930s until the 1960s, it was a military training site.

Over February and March, unexploded ordnance (UXO) experts were scouring a two-hectare swath of the lands with metal detectors, which turned up an unexploded three-inch mortal shell, and a fuse used to detonate mortars.

In both cases, the UXO team called in Canadian Forces explosives experts to come to the site, plant charges on the items and detonate them safely, with the public kept away. Based on the explosion the detonation produced, project manager Debbie Nicholls said the mortar shell would have been filled with high explosives.

UXO team finds and detonates two explosives in North Vancouver

In 2018, they found 200 kilograms of unexploded mortar shells, practice rounds and grenade parts. They’ll be back this fall to continue the search

www.nsnews.com

Three weeks ago. Plenty more out there, we barely scratched the surface. See what I did there?

 

[daftandbarmy]

Three weeks ago. Plenty more out there, we barely scratched the surface. See what I did there?

I should hope not... sounds dangerous

 

[Spencer100]

Imagine the next 100+ years in Eastern Ukraine and elsewhere too.

If you are a UXO type with an entrepreneur side. Get a company set up now. Ukrainan speaking etc. Start lobbying government now for those reconstruction dollars that will be flowing from Ottawa and elsewhere.
It will be a multi generational business. Start now looking for the police and army surplus if it has not already got scooped up.

Kind like Safety Boss after The first Gulf War did with the fires. The little Canadian did more than the big US guys.

 

[Colin Parkinson]

There goes my supply of explosives for when I start the "Peoples Front for the Liberation of North Vancouver".

 

[Spencer100]

There goes my supply of explosives for when I start the "Peoples Front for the Liberation of North Vancouver".

Damn the PFLNV...we are North Vancouver People Liberation Front! The only people we hate more than Central Canadians are the PFLNV. Oh and Peoples Poplar Front of North Vancouver.

 

[Kat Stevens]

Which group is it that doesn't believe in turn signals on the Upper Levels? Oh, all of them. Okay then.

 

[Colin Parkinson]

Popular Front = Bike lanes "Burn them!!!'

 

[Spencer100]

Popular Front = Bike lanes "Burn them!!!'

I would join your People's Front if in the manifesto we pledge to burn this and replace it.

And no Graphic Artists get to bid on the replacement.

 

[MysticMango]