I dare say it would be a training torpedo as they’re designed to float when they run out of propellant whereas a real torpedo sinks.
It certainly doesn’t look to be 80 years old so my guess is it is an aircraft launched (P8?) training torpedo that was lost during ex Diamond Spear or Shield.
Gold Coast Torpedo
P3 Poseidon Mk.54 Training Torpedo
Training torpedoes normally have a brightly coloured section on them.
Can’t see much on the one on the beach.
Normally the nose but the second photo I posted is from 2024.
This video is also in the article
Apart from the white nose cone, there’s no bright coloured section. 6 - 12 months in the ocean could seriously discolour that section through growth or potentially even make the cap fall off.
Either way, I highly doubt it’s an active torpedo. We just don’t go about launching real torpedos in the EAXA.
And I’m pretty sure live torpedoes sink.
I’m sure it won’t stop the Terror running a scare story on this.
Just to allay those fears, a torpedo’s range is only around 5 Nautical Miles. The Chinese ships were 120+ nautical miles off our coast for the majority of the time they were out there.
There’s no way it’s one of theirs even if they launched it directly towards our coastline, it would still be in the middle of the Tasman.
And there’s our DT headline for tomorrow!
ALBANESE SITS ON CHINESE HANDS AS ANTISEMETIC TORPEDOS TERRORIZE GOLD COAST JEWS!
I thought the Chinese warships didn’t actually fire anything? They were arrayed as though carrying out live fire drills, but nothing was launched?
anyone gotten insurance with Bingle? Looking at Comprehensive and it’s suspiciously cheap. Like $850 vs $1100 for Budget and the rest are $1500+
Check the agreed value is the same, and there aren’t higher excesses.
Also you may not get choice of repairer etc.
ive had a look and not gonna risk Bingle. They have a ridiculous number of bad reviews online, especially in comparison to budget
Isn’t it one of those bullshit ‘budget’ insurers that asks you for your car use routine and anything beyond that isn’t covered?
Just don’t get a quote from youi. If you answer their call they will hound you incessantly.
I’ve already read horror stories about youi, even from people on this forum.
their questions were surprisingly short and fairly open ended. Just the usual, where is it parked etc. Apparently they’re really bad when actually honouring the policy, failing to give refunds for paid excess, not investigating anything etc.
If you want that, can’t remember which insurer we used for home and contents, but one of them was asking questions like:
Shit like that. It was absolutely horrible and apparently just answering yes to the tree one sends it skyrocketing.
Yeah… I made that mistake. Compare the market is just crap these days, so just did individual ones. Didn’t realise that Youi makes you go through the whole process and then gets someone to call you. I realised that and have refused to answer my phone. 5 missed calls, 1 sms and an email and they’re still trying…
I’ve been with Bingle for about 10 years and never had an issue. We had an excess refunded within 5 business days and when our car was written off due to floods the market value was in our account super quick.
