Re: Lost at Sea
Lost at sea, that good old fallback!
I used to work in oceanography, and was doing some joint work with the US. I once had a load of old sonobuoys that had life-expired and needed disposed of. Being a young Brit newbie who didn't know any better, I followed all the regs to get them properly disposed of, especially accounting for the fact that they contained small explosive charges (think car airbag deployment). Cost a bit of money for a specialist company to render them safe for disposal etc. etc. but job done right, pat on the back from management, that sort of thing.
A while later I caught up with my US opposite number who had the same issue. They just saved them until their next sailing, and laid and excessively dense sonobuoy field on the way out. Now why didn't I think of that?