The Tybee Island B-47 / Atomic Bomb incident happened on February 5, 1958, in which the United States Air Force lost a 7,600-pound (3,400 kg) Mark 15 hydrogen bomb in the waters off Tybee Island near Savannah, Georgia, USA. During a practice exercise the B-47 bomber carrying it collided in midair with an F-86 fighter plane. To prevent a detonation in the event of a crash and to save the aircrew, the bomb was jettisoned. Following several unsuccessful searches, the bomb was presumed lost somewhere in Wassaw Sound off the shores of Tybee Island.
There is no mistake that the bomb was loaded with highly enriched uranium. This fact has not been disputed by anyone, not even our government or its military. The true question is, what happened to the iron case that was holding all that radioactive material after absorbing the impact and being submerged in saltwater?
You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to figure out that iron and saltwater don’t mix. Just ask anyone who owns anything made from iron or steel that lives near the coast.
Where am I going with this? Well, the radioactive uranium that WAS in that bomb started leaking a few years after it was deposited near Tybee Island and Wassaw Sound.
As everyone knows, there are a lot of fish in the waters off of Tybee and there are a lot of fishermen. As the story goes, a fisherman was bitten by a small shark that was caught in his nets sometime in the waning months of the summer of 1965. This shark wasn’t the typical shark you would encounter near Tybee. It was obviously affected by radiation or some other foreign / invasive element.
This story doesn’t end with the discovery of this hideous fish or its victim, it begins with it!!!
