Government to Conduct Survey of Wreck Area (Canada)

According to CBCNews, the federal government has on Tuesday sent out a tender for survey work of a warship wreck off Sambro Island, near Halifax.

Namely, the First World War ship, S.S. City of Vienna, is considered to be a threat because there is up to 10,000 munitions in the site where it sank almost one hundred years ago.

Terrence Long, chairman of International Dialogue on Underwater Munitions, stated: “There is a potential for a major explosion to happen. What we are aware is when you take munitions and you continually put them in one particular area, if one munitions goes off it has the potential to set off all the other munitions in that particular site.”

A local diver disagrees: “Those ordinances have been down there since 1918 and are not doing anything.”

Defence Construction Canada will wait for the survey to be finished in order to make further decisions.

An estimated $310,000 will be spent on the survey project.

The tender for the survey work ends 28 August.

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Subsea World News Staff , July 26, 2012