Military Backs New Work to Locate, Safely Detonate Wartime Munitions Dumped Off Hawai‘i

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HONOLULU, HI -
(Hawai'i News Now)
05/31/2024
Figure 1 – USVs built and/or operated by UH College of Engineering
Figure 1 – USVs built and/or operated by UH College of Engineering robotics team “Kanaloa” preparing to detect munitions on the seabed in Kāneʻohe Bay.

An estimated 100,000 military bombs were sunk off Hawai’i in the 1940s alone, according to a University of Hawai’i researcher.

Now there’s a new effort to find some of those aging munitions before they deteriorate further.

HNN Investigates learned that tests will begin soon on new kinds of technologies aimed at locating the explosives in places where people are most likely to come in contact with them.

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