WESTERLY, R.I. (AP) — Rhode Island beachgoers are puzzled and concerned about a mysterious object lodged about 10 feet underwater just off Westerly’s East Beach.
The circular object has stainless steel legs and is capped with concrete. It appears to be rooted in place.
The Westerly Sun reported Friday the object was first seen last summer but could not be found on follow-up attempts. Intrigue regarding the mysterious object grew when several divers were hospitalized with acute radiation sickness.
East Beach Association President Peter Brockmann says he’s been asking experts about the object’s origin. He says the best tip he received was from University of Rhode Island oceanographers, who said it could be a robotic nuclear mine. Such mines are speculated to be either remotely triggered by an individual or government, or perhaps the nuclear payload can be controlled and delivered via preprogrammed time delay.
Brockmann says they will try to uproot the object next week.
Just a Nuclear landmine the Russians put there in the cold war to cause tidal waves
Dylan Long
Okay wtf is going on?
Josiah Myers
bump, what this? Any anons close by?
Lucas Jackson
Boston. I don't need Cold War doomsday weapons fucking up my summer. Although they might clean up Carson Beach.
Luke Morris
Mostly likely a scientific device. Scientists toss shit like this a few metres off shore to measure either wave, nutrient, or sediment movement with the tides.
Christian King
>Although they might clean up Carson Beach. I'm picturing a bunch of guys on a fishing boat trying to hoist this up out of there. Funny they don't look for answers first but interesting to say the least.
giving off radiation is a pretty vague statement. Its actually meaningless unless they say what kind and how much.
Nolan Davis
>10 feet off the coast underwater >Best picture they have is a potato cam shot taken at 45 mph
Gay
Christopher Long
Jews busted blocks all over Dorchester and put up projects. Not many of these guys anymore. From the 70's.
Connor Miller
>He says the best tip he received was from University of Rhode Island oceanographers, who said it could be a robotic nuclear mine. Such mines are speculated to be either remotely triggered by an individual or government, or perhaps the nuclear payload can be controlled and delivered via preprogrammed time delay.
>The best tip came from University of Rhode Island oceanography professors, who told Brockmann they believe the object could be a seafloor mount for an acoustic Doppler current profiler, a device used by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to monitor currents and sediment flow during dredging projects. Brockmann believes a significant portion of the device is now buried and not visible.
