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What do we do about cleaning up the bombs left behind in the Pacific after World War II?

For the crew of Operation Render Safe, their "another day at work" is diving for wrecks under the sea or digging the soil in hopes of finding unexploded bombs of World War II.

A central Honiara residential area was rocked on Sunday by the detonation of a buried Howitzer shell which left one person dead and three others injured, two seriously. The 101mm cannon round exploded in the Lengakiki area where the four youth members of the Kukum Seventh Day Adventist Church had been holding a fund-raising barbecue. An elder from the church, Lloyd Tahani, said the open fire they were cooking on was directly above the shell. "Maybe, because they had been cooking a long time, it triggered the bomb to explode," mused Tahani. He said the young man who was killed, who he identifi...

“Maybe, because they had been cooking a long time, it triggered the bomb to explode,” said Tahani. He said the young man who was killed, who he identified as Raziv Hilly, “was hit directly” as he was cooking beneath a mango tree while the other three injured people were standing nearby. The incident has left the people in Honiara shocked and scared, said Tahani. ‘Fear to the residents’ “It brought fear to the residents in Honiara because, you know, Honiara is where the battle between Japan and the USA finishes,” he said referring to the 1942-43 Guadalcanal campaign. “You jus...