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Bikini Atoll Island (7′ AMSL)
During most trips to dive the wrecks at Bikini Atoll on Master Liveaboards, about mid-trip, the boat will conduct one dive in the morning and then plan a trip ashore to Bikini Atoll in the afternoon for a picnic and to wander around. Bikini Island was the “control center” for the nuclear tests performed after…
Nagato (Bikini Atoll – 170 fsw)
Intro The Nagato played a pivotal role in World War II and she will forever be inextricably tied to the US entry into the war after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Given her place in history, she has been on my “to-do” list of wreck dives for as long as I can remember. There is…
Airplane Junkyard Part IV (Pt Loma — 210 fsw)
Background For quite a while now, we have been finding and documenting various “dumped” WW II airplanes off of Point Loma, California. They are Corsairs, TBM/F Avengers, and SBD Dauntless aircraft. The original post back in Sept 2021 and then the follow-on post (Part II and III) in Aug 2022 identified over a dozen of…
SBD-3 Dauntless (Revisited) — 80 Years Later
Intro Calendars and dates are a human construction. We have given meaning and importance to specific dates and sometimes circumstances collide in interesting ways. This is a story that starts on August 24, 1943 — 80 years ago today — and involves an interesting connection recently made. Tyler and I have had a longstanding project…
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