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USS Saratoga & the Bikini Atoll Ghost Fleet

DivingPermit neededNo mooring buoys

Wrecks

Micronesia, Palau & the Marshalls, MHUSS Saratoga & the Bikini Atoll Ghost Fleet
Best time
May–Oct
Water temp.
25–29 °C
Dive depth
12–52 m
Coordinates11°35′00″ N, 165°24′00″ E

The only place on earth you can dive an aircraft carrier's flight deck with aircraft still in the hangar, Helldivers and Avengers inside Saratoga, plus 500lb bombs in her magazines. Nearby, the Japanese battleship Nagato (Yamamoto's Pearl Harbor flagship) lying upside down, HIJMS Sakawa, USS Arkansas, USS Pilotfish. Operation Crossroads, July 1946, the US Navy anchored a captured and surplus fleet in Bikini lagoon and detonated two atomic bombs over it. The residents of Bikini were relocated and have never been able to return. This is simultaneously the greatest wreck-diving site on earth and a nuclear-displacement memorial. Anchorage: Bikini lagoon, permit-only, remote; expedition logistics required. Hazards: Bikini lagoon, permit-only, remote; expedition logistics required.

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