limpet

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First he had to pry off an interloper: a limpet, a coin-size, hat-shaped snail that normally clings tenaciously to tidal zone rocks but had taken up residence on the gray epoxy seal protecting the sensor.

From Science Magazine • Nov. 1, 2023

Navy blamed Iran for a series of limpet mine attacks on vessels that damaged tankers.

From Washington Times • Aug. 3, 2021

Other information appears to confirm that the object was an unexploded limpet mine.

From Salon • Jun. 24, 2019

Our correspondent is shown fragments of a magnetic limpet mine like those said to be used by the Iranian military.

From BBC • Jun. 20, 2019

Her fevered mind fastened like a limpet onto the notion that Estha was somehow responsible for Sophie Mol’s death.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy