This week, Project Masam provided first-hand accounts from demining experts as well as investigative materials to a British TV news channel after our teams\u00a0discovered, and destroyed, Yemen’s largest ever waterborne bomb, which could have been used by the Houthis to target international shipping in one of the world’s key commercial routes.<\/p>\n
Since at least 2017, Houthi militias have used sea, or naval, mines<\/a> (conventional and improvised) and conducted targeted attacks using “suicide”-drone boats laden with explosives against shipping vessels along the strategic Red Sea and critical Bab al Mandab Straight, through which some 24,000 vessels sail through transporting 10% of the global seaborne trade<\/a> by volume, according to the Economist.<\/p>\n The ITV News crew were particularly interested in the contents of the explosive charge and an additional 500 litres of petrol, which were discovered in a basic, blue wooden boat – resembling many other civilian fishing boats sailing the Red Sea coast every day.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t