The Royal Navy's explosive ordnance disposal team is due to arrive in Guernsey on Monday evening (10 May) after a Second World War unexploded device was recently found off the White Rock.
Once on island, the Navy team will then start to plan the disposal operation of the object. The ordnance is currently located 548 metres North East of the White Rock pier at St Peter Port Harbour.
A 200-metre maritime Exclusion Zone is in place around the device as published in the Local Notices to Mariners (LNTM 020/2021) on the Guernsey Harbours' website. Guernsey Coastguard is working with Bailiwick Law Enforcement to coordinate the operation
to dispose of the device.
Guernsey's Harbourmaster Captain David Barker said:
"Mariners should follow the instructions of the Local Notices to Mariners and not conduct underwater activities including anchoring, diving and dredging in the exclusion zone which has been established. Public safety must be our first concern and priority."
A team of local divers discovered the ordnance during a routine dive in the area and it has lain on the seabed undisturbed for over 70 years. At present, no commercial vessel traffic movements into St Peter Port or St Sampson's harbours are expected to be impacted as result of the discovery of the ordnance.