Salton Sea Atomic Test Base Part 2

[Music] ah good morning from the salton sea uh i had a nice little surprise this morning like around 2 a.m a buddy of mine from the l.a area came here to surprise me and boy did he he said he got stuck in the sand out here in the salton sea trying to find me and so i'm gonna go and see if i can find him and get him out of the sand i do have a winch on the front of my truck so that will be very helpful in solving this problem so let's go track him down real quick and then we'll continue on our little journey around the salton sea test space or navy base or whatever you want to call it all right let's get going [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] that's how you do it [Music] all right out here at uh one of the explosive bunkers that's totally covered in sand at least the entrance to it is let's see if i can get something i could probably uncover this [Applause] and go inside but it doesn't seem like there's a lot of room i'm not into working that hard right now it's more of a exploration trip not a excavation trip but uh let's go check out the other places here there's part of the road the ancient road ancient now looks like a old civilization huh doesn't seem radioactive but definitely some weird tickles on this can't really uh narrow it down might just be naturally occurring stuff who knows [Music] okay now we're out at the second explosive slash ammo bunker out here and uh this one you can actually walk into there should be some sand in here uh maybe usually there is every time i've been in here let's uh check it out together it's like right over there we'll see if there's anything radioactive around here too you get like weird hits walking around here and i think it's just naturally occurring like uranium or thorium or might just be particles of depleted uranium that blew up a long time ago hard to tell but uh let's check this place out okay [Music] yeah pretty dark back in here it's nice and cool though i like it's really that hot out there but still it's pretty cool looks like they got a little vent here looks like it's a beer can graveyard now i'm ready [Music] [Music] [Music] gotta keep [Music] [Applause] [Music] building now this is the building where they would actually take nuclear weapons and store them either inside the building here or out in the open to see how the elements here at the salton sea would actually affect the explosives and all the components inside of the nuclear weapon so uh this is kind of a cool building it's a kind of intact this wall fell over by like four years ago three years ago and yeah it's uh looks like it's seen a lot of uh shooting range time in here it's also i think one of the sites on the epa report where they said they actually found some sort of uh radiological contamination but we're unable to verify that later on so we'll see what i find okay [Applause] so this is the old airfield out here at the salton sea test base and uh looks a little beat up i don't think he could really land a plane here anymore but it's uh interesting this place looks like it's uh seeing a little bit of training after the base is closed down i believe uh troops marines trained here for a desert storm that's the reason why we're finding like so many machine gun links and spent blank casings around the area it's probably because of those training exercises so this is the lab equipment building pad there's no building here out here anymore but i figured just take a little poke around see what we find a bunch of drains here so huh [Music] a little higher than normal so all right heading out to the land target which is the land-based target as opposed to the water target that's out in the salton sea so if there was anything around here this is the place where we'd find it that was it like a platform or something or what was it yeah i think it was like a triangle like a reflective target it's like don't judge it boom if you ever wonder what steel belting looks like there we go this is the land target right where the bombs will be coming down i don't find anything here it's a couple of like unusual kind of blips as i would put them like little tickles on the geiger counter but nothing too major and it's going to wrap it up here for the salton sea test base hope you enjoyed this video and if you did uh please consider visiting my website uraniumstore.com and seeing if there's a anything there that uh if you like buying like a radioactive rock or radioactive antique that i happen to find on my little journeys but until next time see you later take it easy you

Channel: Radioactive Drew

Views: 25,428

Keywords: uranium, atomic bomb, nuclear bomb, Salton Sea, Salton, California, contaminated, contamination, radiation, radioactive, Geiger counter, offroad, off road, sand, abandoned, bunker, recovery, off roading, Tacoma, Toyota

Id: Nn9vIdnqU74

Length: 14min 53sec (893 seconds)

Published: Sat Mar 26 2022