Shinkoku Maru
DivingNo permitNo mooring buoys
Wrecks
- 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.
Weather
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