87 A graveyard beneath the sea, Scapa Flow
Neil Oliver Podcast
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Cannon Balls - The Strongest Man in the World
In the immediate aftermart of the sinking of royal oak, the navy needed to find out what had happened. And when we turned up is at the door of his cottage, there was a cannon ball en, a cast iron cannon ball,. A men not much smaller than a football, at his front door. The radiation from those test explosions is still there. Fora time, the world's biggest source of uncontaminated steel was the steel that was being salvaged from scapa floe. Scapaflo steel has been to the moon aboat some of the apollo missions. Nobody has ever gone further than the voyager probes, and they have aboard them for all time steal
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