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Wikipedia's first sentence called it "part of the clearance of naval mines from the suez canal". Today it says "redirect from a page that was merged into another page". We saved the article's opening at 6 moments between 2005 and 2025, and every claim links the exact revision.

The opening as it read in 2005

Operation Moon Water was a part of the clearance of naval mines from the Suez Canal ( Nimbus Moon ) as required by the Camp David Agreement . The United States Navy trained and supervised Egyptian Navy divers who made a final sweep of the canal disposing of a huge number of explosives from hand grenades to at least one German bomb left from World War II. Completed by the end of July, 1975¹

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The opening as it stood in 2010

Operation Moon Water was a part of the clearance of naval mines from the Suez Canal in Operation Nimbus Moon , as required by the Camp David peace accord between Egypt and Israel. The United States Navy trained and supervised Egyptian Navy divers who made a final sweep of the canal disposing of a huge number of explosives from hand grenades to at least one German bomb left from World War II . The operation was completed by the end of July, 1975. v t e v t e v t e

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The opening as it stood in 2015

( Learn how and when to remove this message ) Operation Moon Water was part of the clearance of naval mines from the Suez Canal in Operation Nimbus Moon , as required by the Camp David peace accord between Egypt and Israel. The United States Navy trained and supervised Egyptian Navy divers who made a final sweep of the canal disposing of a huge number of explosives ranging from hand grenades to at least one German bomb left from World War II . The operation was completed by the end of July, 1975. v t e v t e v t e

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The opening as it stood in 2020

Operation Moon Water was part of the clearance of naval mines from the Suez Canal in Operation Nimbus Moon . The United States Navy trained and supervised Egyptian Navy divers who made a final sweep of the canal disposing of a huge number of explosives ranging from hand grenades to at least one German bomb left from World War II . The operation was completed by the end of July, 1975. v t e v t e v t e

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The opening as it stood on October 6, 2023 3 passages from the previous snapshot no longer appear

Redirect to: 1974 Suez Canal Clearance Operation#Operation Nimbus Moon From a merge : This is a redirect from a page that was merged into another page. This redirect was kept in order to preserve the edit history of this page after its content was merged into the content of the target page. Please do not remove the tag that generates this text (unless the need to recreate content on this page has been demonstrated) or delete this page. To a section : This is a redirect from a topic that does not have its own page to a section of a page on the subject.

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