1966 - Color, Spain: Operation Salvage Operation. 02Mar66 (Atomic Search)
Palomares, Spain
10:52:33 Slate: 02Mar66 Frogman diver helped aboard ship, tanks taken. Others in water, board ship. Divers in wet suits prepare equipment for searching.
10:59:30 Divers jump in, descend w/ bubbles. Men on ship watch; shore seen behind.
11:00:08 Diver Chief McClenny in whale boat alongside ship changes into wet suit, puts on weight belt & knife. Puts on tanks. Also in boat is Lt. Claypool.
Communications; US Navy; Naval Ships; International Incident; Searching; Near Miss; 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: Operation Salvage Operation. 02Mar66 (Atomic Search) Palomares, Spain 10:52:33 Slate: 02Mar66 Frogman diver helped aboard ship, tanks taken. Others in water, board ship. Divers in wet suits prepare equipment for searching. 10:59:30 Divers jump in, descend w/ bubbles. Men on ship watch; shore seen behind. 11:00:08 Diver Chief McClenny in whale boat alongside ship changes into wet suit, puts on weight belt & knife. Puts on tanks. Also in boat is Lt. Claypool. Communications; US Navy; Naval Ships; International Incident; Searching; Near Miss; 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.