US Navy offers assistance after Great Barrier Reef bomb dropReuters: The US Navy offered Australia any help it wanted to retrieve 4 bombs mistakenly dropped inside the World Heritage-listed Great Barrier Reef marine park last week.US Navy Harrier fighter jets were forced to drop the bombs, 2 inert and 2 carrying explosives but not armed, after civilian boats were spotted near their original target.
Photo: File photo of a Harlequin Tuskfish showing off its tusks at Heron Island, a popular diving spot in the southern Great Barrier Reef (Catlin Seaview Survey)
Sorry about dropping bombs in one of the most environmentally sensitive areas of the world, Earth.
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