Blog Posts
B-36 Peacemaker Photogrammetry Models
Intro/Background I’m currently finishing up the chapter in the book on the B-36 wreck off Mission Beach. It is quite a story and has taken more time than most of the other chapters to get it just right. It took a lot of additional research, reading and re-reading accident reports and newspaper articles to get…
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.
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