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Last week's dumping of four unarmed bombs into Australia's Great Barrier Reef by two American fighter jets during a training exercise gone awry is just the latest insult to a delicate ecosystem already under siege from a variety of man-made threats.
This incident occurred on July 16, when two AV-8B Harrier aircraft launched from the U.S.S. Bonhomme Richard ran out of fuel and were each forced to jettison an inert practice bomb and an unarmed laser-guided bomb, none of which exploded.
The emergency dump site was a channel about 164 feet (50 meters) deep, located approximately 18 miles (30 kilometers) south of Bell Cay in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, according to a statement issued by the U.S. Navy.
The US Navy should spend time and money extracting and removing the missals asap, since it was THEIR MISTAKE
