{"id":9108,"date":"2011-07-09T16:48:13","date_gmt":"2011-07-10T01:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=9108"},"modified":"2011-07-09T16:48:13","modified_gmt":"2011-07-10T01:18:13","slug":"army-to-test-underwater-robots-for-removal-of-unexploded-ordnance-off-wai%ca%bbanae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=9108","title":{"rendered":"Army to test underwater robots for removal of unexploded ordnance off Wai\u02bbanae"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The<a href=\"http:\/\/www.staradvertiser.com\/news\/20110709_Army_tests_system_to_clear_munitions_from_reef.html\"> Honolulu Star Advertiser <\/a>reports that Army demonstrated a remote-controlled underwater robot it will test for possible use to remove unexploded munitions off the Wai\u02bbanae coast at a location known as &#8220;ordnance reef&#8221;.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Army said it will begin a 21-day trial run  Monday of a remote-controlled submersible designed to remove discarded  military       munitions from the ocean floor off the Waianae Coast.<\/p>\n<p>The area called Ordnance Reef is littered with  more than 2,000 World War II-era munitions including grenades, bullets,  bullet       casings and bombs, the Army said.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/media.staradvertiser.com\/images\/20110709_nws_ordnancegraphic.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"559\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Officials will use the trial to evaluate the  effectiveness of the vehicle to collect munitions, as well as gauge any  damage       to the reef. If the trial is a success, full-scale removal  operations could begin next year.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Munitions would be brought to a barge equipped with  equipment to destroy the munitions, in most cases by cutting them up  and       baking them in a specially designed oven to render explosive  material inert.<\/p>\n<p>The project has an estimated cost of $2.5 million     to $6 million, including the $1 million cost of the     submersible.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.staradvertiser.com\/news\/20110709_Army_tests_system_to_clear_munitions_from_reef.html\">READ THE FULL ARTICLE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Honolulu Star Advertiser reports that Army demonstrated a remote-controlled underwater robot it will test for possible use to remove unexploded munitions off the Wai\u02bbanae coast at a location known as &#8220;ordnance reef&#8221;. The Army said it will begin a 21-day trial run Monday of a remote-controlled submersible designed to remove discarded military munitions from &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=9108\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Army to test underwater robots for removal of unexploded ordnance off Wai\u02bbanae&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[161,3],"tags":[2408,414],"class_list":["post-9108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-projects-issues-and-campaigns","category-oahu","tag-uxo","tag-waianae"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9108"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9108"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9111,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9108\/revisions\/9111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}