Tom Scott

Unexploded Bombs off the British Coast: the SS Richard Montgomery (2016x13)

Air date: Feb 29, 2016

In the Thames Estuary, near a town called Sheerness, a few dozen miles east of London, lies a World War 2 shipwreck that contains over 1,000 tonnes of unexploded bombs. Is it a risk to the area? Or is it just an interesting historical artifact? The trouble is, no-one's quite sure...