Oops: The nuke the USAF lost off the South Carolina coast.

[ProfessorWes]

Somewhere near Tybee Island, South Carolina, at the bottom of the sea, lies a four-megaton nuclear bomb lost after a fighter jet collided with a B-47 bomber in 1958. Call it the ultimate fishing story.

https://gardenandgun.com/feature/saga-tybee-bomb/

"Another big truth down here: The sea does not easily give up its secrets. Even a seven-thousand-pound bomb." Read the whole thing.

 

[GunnyGene]

"Another big truth down here: The sea does not easily give up its secrets. Even a seven-thousand-pound bomb." Read the whole thing.

We know more about the surface of Mars than we know about the sea floor.

 

[blackhawknj]

Godzilla hasn't put in an appearance, nor has Goldfinger, so it can't be too bad.
Did one of the crew members ride it down, waving a cowboy hat ?

 

[gramps]

Interesting! Anybody looked around the old Coast Guard station?
gramps

 

[Jeepnik]

Minor incident. The USN has lost entire submarines full of munitions, reactors and such.

 

[blume357]

there is a marker in a field just out side of Florence S.C. where they dropped one on land.

 

[pisgah]

"Another big truth down here: The sea does not easily give up its secrets. Even a seven-thousand-pound bomb." Read the whole thing.

We know more about the surface of Mars than we know about the sea floor.

Evidently, this is true. For instance, some folks don't even know Tybee Is. is in Georgia, not SC...

The one they lost over SC didn't stay lost long -- it hit on terra firma and exploded -- just the non-nuke trigger, though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1958_Mars_Bluff_B-47_nuclear_weapon_loss_incident

 

[blume357]

There are a lot of things lost at sea... I have a map of the area around the grave yard off of N.C. A good number of German sailers rest out there and along our coast.

 

[bobski]

theyre still looking for that nuke. on and off. some here some there.
hard to believe...we can find the titanic and the indy 30,000 ft down, but that nuke?
cant find it!

 

[Acorn]

There is a B-25 somewhere in the bottom of the Monongahela River in Pittsburgh that they've been looking for for 60 years and the river is only 20 foot deep.
https://www.heinzhistorycenter.org/blog/western-pennsylvania-history/mystery-of-pittsburghs-ghost-b-25-bomber

 

[dave524]

They lost one up here too https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1950_Rivi%C3%A8re-du-Loup_B-50_nuclear_weapon_loss_incident

 

[Armybrat]

there is a marker in a field just out side of Florence S.C. where they dropped one on land.

That one was dropped on my 8th grade English teacher’s brother’s farm.
I had no idea what she was talking about when she started class that morning by saying “my brother & his family are ok”, until a classmate clued me in.

BTW - that class was at Taipei American School in Taiwan where my dad was stationed.

 

[Jeepnik]

Actually TFOA's are very common. For those that don't know TFOA stands for Things Falling Off Aircraft. There is actually a report that is filed with the FAA when it happens.

 

[CGDustDevil]

Actually TFOA's are very common. For those that don't know TFOA stands for Things Falling Off Aircraft. There is actually a report that is filed with the FAA when it happens.

The bomb didn't "fall" off the plane... It was dropped into the sea so they could land what was left of the B-47. ;)

 

[tsubaki]

Bad part was, after the impact the B-47 was on approach to land at Hunter Field and the tower asked about the bombs location. The pilot radioed back "in the plane".
The tower waved off the plane and made them jettison it.
Over the usual approach to Hunter Field from the east, it was dropped in the darkness near Wassaw Sound. Water depths are from 10 to 30 feet with a silt/sand bottom. Even three miles offshore the maximum water depth is only 30 feet.
Best the pilot could narrow the area down was in or near Wassaw Sound.

 

[jack black]

That was retrieved in and do not ask me how I know.