Bang on Easter

Easter Saturday, cold and windy with a few sleet showers just what we needed for a holiday weekend.

Swanage Lifeboat had been out down to Chapmans Pool to deal with a yacht hard aground, watched by the St Albans Coastguard team.

Poole Lifeboat had been out to assist an adult and several children in a small boat being blown out to sea.

The Patrol set out and immediately liaised with the air ambulance crew who had landed up at the recycling centre, they had been stood down so no assistance required so the patrol went on its way only to find the Police at Studland dealing with an exploded bomb.
During the war and in preparation for the D Day landings in Normandy, Studland was used a huge exercise area, tons and tons of explosives where dropped or fired...the rest as they say is history.

Despite many years of clearance, items are still turning up and due to their age they have to be treated with even more caution and usually items are destroyed on site rather than being taken away.


Thankful our Bomb Disposal Teams are at hand to deal with these items, highly skilled military personel who know when a piece of rusty metal is in fact a piece of high explosive!

Our role in all this is to place a safety cordon around the area to ensure the public stay away whilst the detonation takes place.



After a count down, a press of a button, a bang it was all over. A piece of ordnance that had laid undisturbed for 60 years final was made safe. I understand this was a rocket probably fired from a landing craft.