[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS, GLOBAL: Canada TV series: "Bomb Hunters"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Bomb hunters searching Canada's lakes, waterways for thousands of  
unexploded shells

BY RANDY BOSWELL
POSTMEDIA NEWS/Montreal Gazette (Canada)
August 20, 2012

OTTAWA - Unexploded bombs - potentially thousands of them - are  
believed to be lying undisturbed on former Canadian military training  
grounds, in nearby waters and elsewhere across the country, a  
potential hazard that has not only prompted federal efforts to  
dispose of the decades-old explosives but also inspired a new History  
Television series chronicling the mission: Bomb Hunters.

Scheduled to debut next week, the program follows two crews of bomb- 
disposal experts - including one from the Quebec-based company Mine/ 
EOD, headed by former Canadian Forces combat engineer Ray Tremblay -  
as they try to locate and blow up long-latent UXOs, or "unexploded  
explosive ordnance."

The pilot episode, to be aired Aug. 27, features Tremblay’s team  
carrying out preliminary work at Quebec's Lac Saint-Pierre -  
described by a narrator as "Canada's deadliest lake" because of the  
hundreds of undetonated artillery shells thought to lie on the bottom.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.canada.com/news/Bomb+hunters+searching+Canada+lakes 
+waterways+thousands+unexploded+shells/7117298/story.html#ixzz248g6mnAl

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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