1966 - Color, Spain: Aircraft Salvage Operation w/ Aluminaut. Feb-Mar66 (Atomic Search)
Palomares, Spain
08:16:08 Fiber-glass outboard motor boat hanging from davit of SS Privateer; Aluminaut visible on water. Man walks on deck of Aluminaut, cylinders on tower, man into tower and cans handed down by second man. More of men into tower. Man on tower talking on phone. CU testing propellor on top of Aluminaut. Motorboat raised from water on davits, Aluminaut behind, cast off and slowly moves away from SS Privateer.
08:21:11 Aluminaut under tow, coastline behind. Navy Jr. officer on deck of Privateer taking picture. Civilian merchant seaman at wheel of Privateer.
08:22:09 Crewmen on deck, man working on rubber boat. Aluminaut w/ line attached moving under own power. Frogman & crew by rubber boat on deck of Privateer. Others move about deck. Rubber boat w/ motor & frogmen out towards Aluminaut.
08:24:16 Merchant marine w/ binoculars and taking a bearing or instrument reading from bridge. Passing by marker buoy from bow, then from stern. Again from bow.
Communications; US Navy; Naval Ships; International Incident; Searching; Aftermath; 1960s; Radiation Hazard;
NOTE: On 17Jan66 a SAC B-52 carrying four B28 thermonuclear (hydrogen) bombs collided in mid-air w/ KC-135 tanker while refueling. 3 bombs were found on shore, high explosives in two had detonated on impact scattering plutonium dust over several hundred acres. After 80 days the fourth bomb was found.
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1966 - Color, Spain: Aircraft Salvage Operation w/ Aluminaut. Feb-Mar66 (Atomic Search) Palomares, Spain 08:16:08 Fiber-glass outboard motor boat hanging from davit of SS Privateer; Aluminaut visible on water. Man walks on deck of Aluminaut, cylinders on tower, man into tower and cans handed down by second man. More of men into tower. Man on tower talking on phone. CU testing propellor on top of Aluminaut. Motorboat raised from water on davits, Aluminaut behind, cast off and slowly moves away from SS Privateer. 08:21:11 Aluminaut under tow, coastline behind. Navy Jr. officer on deck of Privateer taking picture. Civilian merchant seaman at wheel of Privateer. 08:22:09 Crewmen on deck, man working on rubber boat. Aluminaut w/ line attached moving under own power. Frogman & crew by rubber boat on deck of Privateer. Others move about deck. Rubber boat w/ motor & frogmen out towards Aluminaut. 08:24:16 Merchant marine w/ binoculars and taking a bearing or instrument reading from bridge. Passing by marker buoy from bow, then from stern. Again from bow. Communications; US Navy; Naval Ships; International Incident; Searching; Aftermath; 1960s; Radiation Hazard; NOTE: On 17Jan66 a SAC B-52 carrying four B28 thermonuclear (hydrogen) bombs collided in mid-air w/ KC-135 tanker while refueling. 3 bombs were found on shore, high explosives in two had detonated on impact scattering plutonium dust over several hundred acres. After 80 days the fourth bomb was found.