Hi all. I'm writing a fantasy story where the tech does not exceed 1959. One of the MCs is training to learn to disarm naval mines. I chose this based on the son of a friend of my mother's (not someone I can call and just ask questions to, unfortunately) who I was told worked for a period as a diver disarming naval mines. That sounded very brave and admirable to me and I wanted to have my MC do training to do something similar. However now, try as I might, I can't find anything about how people do that. I've read about ships that are minesweepers and detonations from the air. But what about divers that disarm mines? Does anyone know anything about that?
Apparently Jacques Cousteau's group used to remove or detonate mines (that's how it's phrased on the wiki page about naval mines) which to me implies that it is, in fact, possible to remove mines without detonating them. Can anyone tell me more about that?
I'd like to be able to describe the process of disarming naval mines in the book. As there are many types of mines, it would be great to be able to describe more than one, if possible, but I'll take what I can get. The tech level of the mines would ideally not exceed WW2 era, because the mines the MC is disarming are left over from a conflict that happened a couple of decades before the start of the book.
Thank you in advance for any help.
Apparently Jacques Cousteau's group used to remove or detonate mines (that's how it's phrased on the wiki page about naval mines) which to me implies that it is, in fact, possible to remove mines without detonating them. Can anyone tell me more about that?
I'd like to be able to describe the process of disarming naval mines in the book. As there are many types of mines, it would be great to be able to describe more than one, if possible, but I'll take what I can get. The tech level of the mines would ideally not exceed WW2 era, because the mines the MC is disarming are left over from a conflict that happened a couple of decades before the start of the book.
Thank you in advance for any help.