Diver finds unexploded Nazi mines

A Croatian underwater explorer who rediscovered the wreck of HMS Aldenham that was sunk by mines has now found two undetonated Nazi naval mines in the same part of the Adriatic Sea as the wreck. Velimir Vrzic, a retired police officer from the Croatian port city of Rijeka on Kvarner Bay in the northern Adriatic Sea, received a call from a friend about a strange object he had noticed in the sea. Vrzic, who was a copper for 23 years before stepping down eight years ago, told Newsflash: “I received a call from my friend Peter Smojver, who is one of Croatia’s best-known sailors, about a strange object in a small bay on the island of Pag. Vrzic, who has a passion for underwater exploration and said that he personally found the wreckage of the WWII British destroyer HMS Aldenham, used a diver propulsion vehicle to scour 12 kilometres (7.5 miles) of the coast before finding the mine about five metres (16 feet) below the surface. He told Newsflash: “I found a large metal object that looked like a German EMC naval mine.