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A 7-foot log-like object caught in the gear of a local fishing boat and dragged on Saturday to Mackerel Cove turned out to be a potentially live military projectile and was detonated by Maine State Police on Monday. The video, filmed by Jim Baldwin, captures the moments up to the detonation, in which officials can be heard yelling “fire in the hole” several times prior to the actual explosion. [Maine fishing boat snares a ‘scuzzy’ 7-foot-long explosive device] The Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office went to the wharf at Bailey Island Lobster Company on Abner Point Road just before 10:30 a.m.