Blog Posts
Million Dollar Point: Diving the WWII Junkyard of Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu
Million Dollar Point isn’t a shipwreck — it’s an entire WWII junkyard, deliberately driven into the ocean by the US military rather than handed over to colonial powers who refused to pay. Here’s the story behind it, and what it’s like to dive the tractors, jeeps, and trucks still resting on the seabed today.
U-869 “U-Who?” Submarine (New Jersey — 230 fsw)
Diving U-869, the “U-Who?” wreck made famous by Shadow Divers — with a detailed top-down photogrammetry model and a builder’s-plan overlay.
SS President Coolidge (Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu — 60->220 fsw)
The SS President Coolidge is one of the best wreck dives in the world — a 600-foot luxury liner turned troopship, sunk in 1942 and still nearly intact. Here’s her story, and mine: 8 dives, cargo holds full of jeeps, a doctor’s office, an engine room, and everything in between.
Mystery Corsair (Turtle Bay, Espiritu Santo — 120 FSW)
An unidentified WWII Corsair rests off Turtle Bay, Espiritu Santo — and figuring out whose it was turned into a real research rabbit hole. Eleven candidate aircraft, a missing propeller with no good explanation, and a mystery that’s still open.
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