Jettisoned Ordnance Located Along Great Barrier Reef
Queensland, Australia The four bombs jettisoned on the Great Barrier reef during a military exercise have been found by the Royal Australian Navy minehunter HMAS Gascoyne. Australia and the U.S. are working on a plan to recover the munitions which were jettisoned by US Marine Corps planes during a training exercise.
Two of the bombs were inert and two contained high explosives. The bombs were jettisoned into about 50 to 60 meters of water inside the boundaries of the Great Barrier Reef marine park. The planes were running dangerously low on fuel and were unable to drop the ordnance where they had intended, because civilian vessels had wandered into the pre-approved drop zone.