hand grenade fishing


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Inner harbour

Wed, 2012-08-01 09:57

We used to get out in a dinghy when we set off charges while blasting  the inner harbour in Bunbury. We'd winch the drill barge back from the area then put the dinghy in the water with one on the oars and the other with the scoop net and as soon as the charges went off go like mad to get any fish that came up in the boil.

The shock waves used to fairly shake the bottom of the dinghy even though we were about 50 metres away. Were setting 50lb of gelly per hole at 5 foot centres and half second delay detonators in 40 foot of water. Usually set off 10 holes a day.

Didn't score too many fish with the amount of activity going on and the water being dirty as crap.

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What a pair of idiots. Read a

Wed, 2012-08-01 10:16

What a pair of idiots. Read a story years ago in a book on shark stories about these yanks back in WW2 or the end of it. Any way they were based in the Pacific at the end of the war and were asked to dispose of some excess munitions.One of the guys had the great idea to go shark hunting,so they grabbed a couple of boxes of grenades and some off meat a small boat and headed of to the lagoon.Everything was going along just fine with a number of sharks taking a lump of meat containing a grenade swimming of a distance and blowing up.That was until one of them swallowed the bait and sat under the boat,the guys rowed like demons to get away only to have it follow them toward shore,they were mtrs from shore with the shark still right on their tail when the thing blew up throwing them all up onto the beach was a classic story and could imagine the panic as they rowed to shore.

Hey Carnarvonite were you still in Bunno when they built the Alcoa wharf? Have heard stories of the boys on construction there lining up gas bottles and wacking the ends of and sending them across the harbour like topedoes.

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Alcoa wharf

Wed, 2012-08-01 13:16

Was still there but didn't hear or have anything to do with the Alcoa wharf.

Was with Dept of Harbours and Rivers, had to do all soundings, early drill and blast before Aust Dredging took over, maintenance on old wooden jetty, concrete piles on Laporte pipeline, you name it.

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 Bahahaha fricken idiots.

Wed, 2012-08-01 10:48

 Bahahaha fricken idiots.

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They were stuntmen filming

Wed, 2012-08-01 11:06

They were stuntmen filming for the new expendables movie. One was apparently seriously hurt.

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Snuff movie?

Wed, 2012-08-01 12:02

If that is the case one of them is dead and the other was/is on life support:

http://www.sofiaecho.com/2011/10/28/1189640_expendables-2-stuntman-killed-on-ognyanovo-dam

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Didnt see your link

Wed, 2012-08-01 13:50

Sorry bitten I posted same vid in Fishing discussion, saw on yahoo news and found vid. Lucky they didnt blow their heads off

 

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 No problem it's not a

Wed, 2012-08-01 23:31

 No problem it's not a comPetition I probably shoulda posted it there anyway

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alota comments on youtube are

Thu, 2012-08-02 09:38

alota comments on youtube are saying it may have been am movie scene with stuntmen

you can hear directors voice at start

 

edit: oops didnt read the comments above