The wreck contains more than 2,000 bombs that could easily explode from World War II

The Oceanic and British Coast Patrol revealed images of a sinking ship containing more than 2,000 easy-to-detonate bombs during World War II.

The SS Richard Montgomery has more than 2,000 unexploded bombs.(Photo: Oceanographic Agency and British Coast Patrol).

According to IFL Science, the SS Richard Montgomery was located on the bottom of the east coast of England near Sheerness, Kent, in 1944. The ship was dubbed the "time bomb" because 1,400 tons of unexploded bombs were still in the cabin. Surveys are conducted periodically to check the status of the ship.

Images of the sunken ship were collected using multi-beam ultrasound positioning and laser scanning to find out the degree of degradation. Although there were a large number of bombs on the ship, the Oceanic and British Coast Patrol identified the risk of a huge explosion.

The ship was built in 1943 in Jacksonville, Florida, USA, to transport equipment to the British army. However, in 1944, the ship hit the sand bank and sank due to submergence. After many failed attempts to rescue the ship, the authorities left it in the same position and the ship lay there for 71 years.