Navy detonated 20 ton explosive for shock trial.

[DadSmith]

That is an explosion!

 

[d.kaufman]

I love watching shockwaves

 

[Cameramonkey]

And that charge was stored down at Crane. I know one of the guys that works down there. He posted a picture on FB of them loading it onto a low boy. Damn thing is HUGE. 12-15' wide and probably every bit of 17' tall.

 

[DadSmith]

And that charge was stored down at Crane. I know one of the guys that works down there. He posted a picture on FB of them loading it onto a low boy. Damn thing is HUGE. 12-15' wide and probably every bit of 17' tall.

I wonder what that would be like if set off on land.

 

[yote hunter]

Wonder how many fish floated to the top after that ?
Get the net we are eating good tonight !

 

[Cameramonkey]

I wonder what that would be like if set off on land.

Apparently not much due to how its constructed. I joked "you guys didnt drop that thing and detonate it around 3:18 PM yesterday did ya?", eluding to that being the real cause of the earthquake.

His response was pretty lukewarm, that it wouldnt be THAT big of a boom above the water. I have to assume apparently most of its containment is from the water pressure, so it would blow off like a fireball on land with little shockwave.

 

[Cameramonkey]

Wonder how many fish floated to the top after that ?
Get the net we are eating good tonight !

A crewmember from Yazoo, MS was overheard saying "y'all gonna argue, or fish?"

 

[actaeon277]

Water doesn't compress.
So it transmits the shock.

 

[yote hunter]

Not sure how deep the water was but it looked like a lot of dark mud/bottom crap come to the top ?

 

[Cameramonkey]

Water doesn't compress.
So it transmits the shock.

Yep. So pretty much like detonating 40k of powder in a giant cardboard box if it were on land. LOL

 

[Bigtanker]

Wonder how many fish floated to the top after that ?
Get the net we are eating good tonight !

All of them

 

[ghitch75]

And that charge was stored down at Crane. I know one of the guys that works down there. He posted a picture on FB of them loading it onto a low boy. Damn thing is HUGE. 12-15' wide and probably every bit of 17' tall.

i'm 2 1/2 miles as the crow flies from the north fence and do work on the base.....i have felt some blasts that one would thought it was that size

 

[Methane Herder]

Wigwam.
40kt.
28.7333°N 126.2667°W


MH

 

[DadSmith]

I wonder how many fish were floating around after that.

 

[actaeon277]

I wasn't there, so I'm not sure.
But in the past, smaller charges were set off to scare the wildlife away.
Course, that was usually for whales, dolphins, etc.
Not sure if the fishes run away.

 

[Frank_N_Stein]

Apparently not much due to how its constructed. I joked "you guys didnt drop that thing and detonate it around 3:18 PM yesterday did ya?", eluding to that being the real cause of the earthquake.

His response was pretty lukewarm, that it wouldnt be THAT big of a boom above the water. I have to assume apparently most of its containment is from the water pressure, so it would blow off like a fireball on land with little shockwave.

What was the explosive? The OKC bomb was ~6000 pounds of ammonium nitrate mixed with nitromethane. 40,000 pounds would cause a hella shockwave on land.

 

[Frank_N_Stein]

Language warning.

 

[Cameramonkey]

What was the explosive? The OKC bomb was ~6000 pounds of ammonium nitrate mixed with nitromethane. 40,000 pounds would cause a hella shockwave on land.

Not sure. He's one of the guys that works in the munitions plant and helps build things like that. He didnt seem too impressed with its (theoretical) performance out of the water.

 

[Frank_N_Stein]

Not sure. He's one of the guys that works in the munitions plant and helps build things like that. He didnt seem too impressed with its (theoretical) performance out of the water.

I'm no expert, but methinks he doesn't understand shockwaves.

 

[Cameramonkey]

Or he is jaded by the other big ordinance there. LOL