When.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network

2. Fujikawa Maru - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fujikawa_Maru

   Fujikawa Maru is regarded as the best scuba diving site in Chuuk Lagoon by both of the principal authors who have undertaken comprehensive surveys of the lagoon, Dan E. Bailey [2] and Klaus Lindemann. Amongst the more striking features on the wreck are at least nine disassembled Mitsubishi fighter aircraft in one of the forward holds.

3. Operation Hailstone - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Hailstone

   Hailstorm Over Truk Lagoon: Operations Against Truk by Carrier Task Force 58, 17 and 18 February 1944, and the Shipwrecks of World War II. Oregon: Resource Publications. ISBN 1-59752-347-X. Peattie, Mark (1992). Nan'Yo: The Rise and Fall of the Japanese in Micronesia, 1885–1945 (Pacific Islands Monograph Series). University of Hawaii Press.

4. Chuuk Lagoon - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuuk_Lagoon

   Chuuk Lagoon is part of the larger Caroline Islands group. The area consists of eleven major islands (corresponding to the eleven municipalities of Truk lagoon, which are Tol, Udot, Fala-Beguets, Romanum, and Eot of Faichuk group, and Weno, Fefen, Dublon, Uman, Param, and Tsis of Nomoneas group) and 46 smaller ones within the lagoon, plus 41 on the fringing coral reef, and is known today as ...

5. Heian Maru (1930) - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heian_Maru_(1930)

   It is the largest wreck in the lagoon (the somewhat larger Tonan Maru No.3 was refloated post-war), [11] and its name is still clearly visible on the bow, in both English and Japanese. Lying on its port side, some of the Heian Maru' s cargo holds are accessible, revealing stockpiles of torpedoes, artillery shells, submarine periscopes, and ...

6. List of wreck diving sites - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wreck_diving_sites

   This dive is becoming less common, as the rapid deterioration of the wreck is making diving more difficult on top of the already treacherous dive to reach the vessel. SS Arratoon Apcar – 19th-century British steamship that is now a wreck in Florida; SMS Geier – Unprotected cruiser of the German Imperial Navy

7. Kimiuo Aisek Memorial Museum - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimiuo_Aisek_Memorial_Museum

   The legacy of the attack made "Truk lagoon the biggest graveyard of ships in the world". [5] It was witnessed by Kimiuo Aisek when he was young. [6] The museum displays the bell recovered from the ship Sapporo Maru. [7] Shell casings and propellers are on open display outside the museum. [7]