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... cause it was unclear whether the mine was placed by the enemy or by one's own forces.

At that time, there was no sonar, and the technology for charting seas and making mines was relatively primitive. Britain and Germany deployed 310,000 mines during World War I, and no one really knew where they all ended up.

If the chain holding a mine in place broke, it would drift with the currents; if there was an issue with the detonator, it might explode as soon as it hit the water. Before ...

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