Magnet fishing: Explosive hobby cleaning up French rivers

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Equipped with powerful magnets, history enthusiasts and environmentalists scour France's rivers, pulling out bits of scrap metal, bikes, scooters, and the odd kitchen appliance.

Equipped with powerful magnets, history enthusiasts and environmentalists scour France’s rivers, pulling out bits of scrap metal, bikes, scooters, and the odd kitchen appliance.

Magnet fishing has fast become a popular pastime, according to public safety officials, but French authorities have clamped down over fears that historical battle sites could still harbor active weapons. After several attempts at their spot near a bridge in La Croix-Saint-Ouen, they latch onto something.A rusty, cast-iron pipe emerges: “Nice catch,” they say. It’s the best find that afternoon.

“It’s crazy everything you can find in the water,” Gressier says, listing anything from electric scooters to traffic signs and microwaves.In the neighboring Somme department, site of one of the largest battles of World War I, Christophe Devarenne started magnet fishing three months ago.But the 52-year-old driver warns that “if you expect to find treasures, there are not many”.

In May, a man was seriously injured after pulling out a shell that emitted mustard gas, in the Nord region, home to the town of Dunkirk.

 

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