FISHING BOAT DRAGS WW II TORPEDO TO TORREVIEJA

The torpedo got caught when the boat was fishing in Cabo de Palos waters.

The Torrevieja fishing boat “Pedro y Loli” unloaded yesterday a German torpedo, known as G-7. The torpedo was used at the beginning of the past century (1914) and during WW II, by German and Spanish boats during the Spanish Civil War.

Around 13.00h, when the boat went fishing in Cabo de Palos waters, the torpedo got hooked into the fishing nets. The crew noticed something strange when they felt the boat was carrying too much weight. They discovered the torpedo, but they couldn’t release it because it got completely stuck between the nets.

A special military unit for bomb exposal from Cartagena intervened to unload the artefact, and Guardia Civil members took care of cutting off access to the fishing port.

The artefact has a length of 3.40 meters and weights about 1000 kilos and could be loaded with trinitrotoluene, an explosive commonly used during last century.

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