Two WWII Bombs Surface on the Same Day, and Britain's Bomb Squad Had to Defuse Both

The art of defusing a second world war bomb

In January 2026, a dredger pulled a 250kg German bomb from Exmouth Marina while a construction crew in Plymouth unearthed a 50kg bomb 50 miles away — the first same-day double discovery since the postwar era. The 11 Explosive Ordnance Disposal Regiment had to assess corroded, unreadable fuzes on both devices, any one of which could still level a street.