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September 13, 2007

Update: Bomb in Worden Pond posed no threat

SOUTH KINGSTOWN -- The aerial bomb the police say a fisherman found in two to three feet of Worden Pond waters was heavily rusted and posed no threat, said Kevin Quinn, deputy chief of the Union Fire District.

Quinn said divers located the bomb after about 45 minutes. It disintegrated when they tried to retrieve it, so they left the pieces on the pond floor, he said.

Three divers from the Navy bomb squad and members of the state fire marshal's bomb squad were studying the find, which was in the northwest corner of the pond, to determine whether it was active.

According to the Kingston fire chief, the Navy used the pond for World War II target practice.

In 1999, a diver discovered an unexploded, 350- to 400-pound torpedo warhead at Point Judith Pond. It was removed -- with a backhoe -- without incident.

-- projo.com writers Michael P. McKinney and Brandie M. Jefferson, with reports from Journal staff writer Katie Mulvaney

Posted by Mike McKinney  at 5:28 PM | Permalink

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