1966 - Color, Spain: Aircraft Salvage Operation, 31Jan66 (Atomic Search)
Palomares, Spain
Slate: 31Jan66 Whale boat w/ men tending divers’ lines & divers behind. Shore visible behind. View across smooth water showing boats and ships searching. Motorized rubber raft towards camera.
10:14:55 Underwater camera w/ film threaded inserted into tub by technician. Two underwater cameras mounted on shaft turned about demonstrating flexibility. Whaleboat on water, ship behind & mountain on shore. Whaleboat toward camera pulling Deep Jeep.
10:18:03 Deep Jeep winched to ship, frogmen behind. Cable attached and lifted aboard USS Kiowa (ATF-72), guided into place to unhook battery pack, then placed on collar platform. Lid opened, two men out. Two men inspect exposed bottom section. Others working on it.
Communications; US Navy; Naval Ships; International Incident; Searching; Near Miss; Aftermath; 1960s;
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, 31Jan66 (Atomic Search) Palomares, Spain Slate: 31Jan66 Whale boat w/ men tending divers’ lines & divers behind. Shore visible behind. View across smooth water showing boats and ships searching. Motorized rubber raft towards camera. 10:14:55 Underwater camera w/ film threaded inserted into tub by technician. Two underwater cameras mounted on shaft turned about demonstrating flexibility. Whaleboat on water, ship behind & mountain on shore. Whaleboat toward camera pulling Deep Jeep. 10:18:03 Deep Jeep winched to ship, frogmen behind. Cable attached and lifted aboard USS Kiowa (ATF-72), guided into place to unhook battery pack, then placed on collar platform. Lid opened, two men out. Two men inspect exposed bottom section. Others working on it. Communications; US Navy; Naval Ships; International Incident; Searching; Near Miss; Aftermath; 1960s; 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.