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Mine warfare ship to be deployed to Great Barrier Reef to hunt bombs dropped by US Marine Harriers

: Jul 31, 2013 - : 3:43 am

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A specialist mine detector ship will be brought in to search for four bombs dropped last week in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park by US Marine Corps Harrier jets.

The vessel would need to travel either from the 7th Fleet’s home base in Japan or Fleet Base East in Sydney Harbour if a request was made to deploy a Royal Australian Navy Mine hunter fitted with a towed magnetometer.

While US Navy sources said the chances of the weapons exploding were virtually nil the US Navy says it will support whatever course of action Australia decides to take in regards to retrieval.

Commander of the US Seventh Fleet Vice Admiral Scott Swift said he would have been surprised if there had been less of a reaction from Australians about the incident.

Two Marine Corps Harrier jump jets were forced to jettison their munitions – one inert practice dumb bomb and an unfused high explosive laser guided weapon – in 55 metres of water off Rockhampton.

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