Dive Brief:

• After discovering an explosive device, the Moloka'i landfill in Maui, Hawaii, was shut down; officials have announced that the site has re-opened. 

• The landfill was closed after workers found an "unexploded ordnance" on the site on Monday; police were alerted and began monitoring and securing the site, while the military disposal unit made their way to the landfill to assess the situation.

• Military personnel from the explosive ordnance unit arrived on the scene and detonated the object, and the landfill was given the "all-clear" before the site was re-opened to the public.

Dive Insight:

On January 13, the potentially dangerous find prompted authorities to immediately close the landfill until further notice. The landfill resumed regular operations just a day later on January 14, 2014.