A barnacle-covered buoy discovered by a pair of curious young children at a Welsh beach was later found to be a bomb from World War II.
Gareth and Kelly Gravell, who visited West Beach in Burry Port with their children, 6-year-old Erin and 4-year-old Ellis, said they did not suspect the item was anything other than an old buoy when their kids asked if they could play with it.
“So the buoy my kids were jumping on all weekend turns out to be a WWII bomb. Oops!!” Gareth Gravell tweeted.
Park officials shared pictures of the bomb on Facebook. “We didn’t take much notice of the buoy,” Kelly Gravell told CBS News. “We were looking at the barnacles, it was quite unusual. It wasn’t until a couple of days later when Pembrey Country Park officials determined the item was actually a U.S.-made bomb from World War II.
