Powerful Storms Deposit WWII Ordnance on California Beach

Pajaro Dunes, California A rusty bomb covered in debris washed up on a California shore just days after heavy surf pounded the coastline. The Santa Cruz County sheriff's bomb squad responded to inspect the bomb at Pajaro Dunes, located between Santa Cruz and Monterey.

According to a post on the sheriff's office social media site, an x-ray scan and visual inspection revealed that the ordnance was an inert military ordnance.

Travis Air Force Base EOD was called in to remove the device which was determined to be a US WWII-era Navy practice bomb.