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Alicia Perera

Complex dive operation underway to remove suspected World War II bomb from Darwin Harbour

A specialist dive team has begun a complex operation to remove a suspected unexploded bomb that could have sat on the sea floor of Darwin Harbour for up to 80 years. 

The Royal Australian Navy's Clearance Diving Team One was deployed to Darwin on Friday to retrieve the item, suspected to be an old mortar shell, discovered during a survey of the planned site of the Darwin Ship Lift project this week.

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