NZDF dive crews blow up underwater bomb in Whangaparaoa, north Auckland
(WorldNews New Zealand)

NZDF NZDF Navy divers and explosives team neutralise 60-year-old depth charge threat in the waters off Whangaparaoa, Auckland There was no way of telling if a metre-long bomb, found in the waters off Whangaparaoa Peninsula, north of Auckland, was full of concrete - or enough explosives to sink a submarine. A 50/50 mix of live depth charges and `drill rounds` were fired liberally around New Zealand after World War II, and they look exactly the same on the outside. So when an ominous Mark 10 anti-submarine mortar was...