Last week the US Navy was forced to dump four bombs into the blue waters of the World Heritage-listed Great Barrier Reef Marine Park after a training exercise went wrong. After spotting civilian boats in their designated training area and running low on fuel, the four planes dumped their bombs into 160-foot deep waters near the reef. Now, the US Navy has agreed to remove the bombs, two of which carry explosives, from the ecologically sensitive area. Read the rest of US Navy Will Recover the Bombs it Dropped in the Great Barrier Reef Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Australia military exercises , Australia Reef , Australian shipping lanes , Climate Change , climate change reefs , GBR , Great Barrier Reef , Great Barrier Reef destruction , Great Barrier Reef shipping lanes , Navy bombs , Navy drops bombs on Great Barrier Reef , Navy drops bombs on reef , Shipping lanes , Starfish infestation , US military exercises , US Navy , US Navy Fleet 7 , World Heritage Great Barrier Reef , world heritage site
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US Navy Will Recover the Bombs it Dropped in the Great Barrier Reef
