On Tuesday, February 16, 2016 at 5:25:25 PM UTC-5, Anon Emous wrote:

Commission investigators interviewed several fireworks experts who said that water in
the firing tubes would cause malfunctions because of the way fireworks are constructed. They asserted that the fuse that ignites the lifting charge inside the shell
also ignites the time fuse that bursts the shell in the air. The fuse first ignites the time
fuse, then ignites the lifting charge. If the lifting charge, which is at the base of the shell,
gets wet the shell will either fail to launch or it will fall short. The time fuse will still
continue to burn. Therefore, when the shell does not launch, it will explode inside the
tube.

Advantage: bottom fusing!

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