UH Students Innovate with New Tech to Detect and Study Underwater Munitions in Hawai’i
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Remote-Controlled Robot to Play Starring Role in Effort to Find Military Munitions Dumped at Sea
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A remote-controlled robot will play a key role in a new project aimed at locating bombs and chemical weapons the military dumped off the coast of O’ahu nearly a century ago. Watch video at Hawai’i News Now
Military Backs New Work to Locate, Safely Detonate Wartime Munitions Dumped Off Hawai‘i
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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.