A few weeks ago I weighed in on a local bomb scare that turned out to be a geocache (although to this day no one knows which cache it was!).

More recently, the opposite has turned up – a cylindrical smoke flare accidentally dropped from a helicopter, into an area where it could, conceivably, be mistaken for a geocache. 

This flare will probably not actually explode in your face, but it will go off if it touches water (it’s designed to be used in sea rescue situations) and when it does you DO NOT want to be at ground zero or even anywhere near it!  Not unless you don’t need to see or breathe.  This thing wasn’t designed to blow pretty smoke rings; it was designed to throw out unbelievable amounts of smoke and be seen from many miles away! 

Cachers, meet the C2A2 Marine Location Marker.  It’s a powerful search and rescue tool but a geocache it ain’t!  If you find one of these, get the kids away from it and call the police!