Another violent underwater burst soon followed, causing a concussion that damaged " Whitehurst " & # 39; s detecting gear.
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For underwater bursts, the visible surge is, in effect, a cloud of liquid ( usually water ) droplets with the property of flowing almost as if it were a homogeneous fluid.
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For example, in the Operation Crossroads tests of 1946 on Bikini Atoll, using two explosive devices of the same design and yield, the first, Test Able ( an air burst ) had little local fallout, but the infamous Test Baker a near surface shallow ( underwater burst ) left the local test targets badly contaminated with radioactive fallout.