So what do you do when something like the Strait of Hormuz is mined? How do you remove them?
Does anyone really understand the procedure?
It's incredibly difficult. You have to send divers down there in specialized military rebreathers to do the work. Why specialized? Because the mines will go off from sounds and anything that disrupts a magnetic field. So you need special gear that is silent and not magnetic.
And that still doesn't address the difficulty of actually disarming them.
Or the fact that the dives are long and arduous due to decompression math.
Or the fact that we don't really have many rebreathers at all that are capable of doing this. The few recreational ones aren't suitable (and they're stupid dangerous according to @SlicerDicer )
Carleton MK15: Ten of these were produced for the US Navy between 1985 and 1986
Carleton MK16: unclear how many exist
BioMarine MK15.5: Enough parts were made for only 26 Mk15.5s
"Just make more" -- the companies who made these very specialized devices don't even exist anymore. We might not even have the capability to manufacture the Inconel spheres (gas cylinders) anymore either.
It's fucked.
Does anyone really understand the procedure?
It's incredibly difficult. You have to send divers down there in specialized military rebreathers to do the work. Why specialized? Because the mines will go off from sounds and anything that disrupts a magnetic field. So you need special gear that is silent and not magnetic.
And that still doesn't address the difficulty of actually disarming them.
Or the fact that the dives are long and arduous due to decompression math.
Or the fact that we don't really have many rebreathers at all that are capable of doing this. The few recreational ones aren't suitable (and they're stupid dangerous according to @SlicerDicer )
Carleton MK15: Ten of these were produced for the US Navy between 1985 and 1986
Carleton MK16: unclear how many exist
BioMarine MK15.5: Enough parts were made for only 26 Mk15.5s
"Just make more" -- the companies who made these very specialized devices don't even exist anymore. We might not even have the capability to manufacture the Inconel spheres (gas cylinders) anymore either.
It's fucked.
