Dame Joanna Lumley today hosted a demonstration detonation in a quarry to show how blowing up unexploded WWII bombs at sea can deafen dolphins and whales.
The actress was joined this morning at the Broadmead Quarry in Somerset by the Secretary of State for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs, George Eustice.
The explosive demo of a traditional bomb detonation was compared with the quieter approach of ‘deflagration’, in which a small charge is used to burn the bomb out.
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