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Marine Ecologist and associate dean of the Odum School of Ecology at the University of Georgia, James Porter, measures a 2,000 pound Navy bomb.

Beyond our shorelines and beneath the blue waters of  Puerto Rico lies a pollution problem of “explosive” proportions.

Underwater graveyards of discarded munitions litter our oceans causing untold environmental damage (not to mention threat of bodily harm to anyone unlucky enough to stumble upon them).

In Puerto Rico alone, there are hundreds of bombs left underwater, leaking carcinogenic material into the ocean that is absorbed by coral marinelife. There are countless other disposal sites as well since it was standard practice to dump unused bombs at sea until 1982.

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