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Shinkoku Maru

DivingNo permitNo mooring buoys

Wrecks

Micronesia, FMShinkoku Maru
Best time
Dec–Apr
Water temp.
28–30 °C
Dive depth
12–40 m
Coordinates7°22′12″ N, 151°52′12″ E

The most beautiful wreck in Truk rather than the most historic, a 152m oiler whose entire superstructure is buried under pink, purple and orange soft coral and giant anemones, with a fully intact operating theatre and medical bottles still on the shelves. A Japanese Navy tanker that refuelled the Pearl Harbor strike force in 1941, sunk by aerial torpedo during Operation Hailstone. Eighty years of undisturbed growth in warm, nutrient-rich lagoon water turned her into a coral garden. Anchorage: Liveaboard. Hazards: No site-specific hazards noted, brief normally.

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