Tauchplatz
USS Saratoga (CV-3)
Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands
- Typische Tiefe
- 50 m
- Typ
- Wrack
- Niveau
- Technical
Notizen
Lexington-class aircraft carrier sunk in the 1946 Operation Crossroads Baker atomic test. Flight deck at ~50 m, hull to ~55 m.
Meereslebewesen
- Other
- aircraft remains in the hangar deck — Helldivers, Avengers
- Corals
- hard coral colonising the flight deck and superstructure
- Sharks
- grey reef shark, silvertip
- Pelagics
- tuna, jacks
- Reef fish
- snapper, grouper
Wrack
- Schiff
- USS Saratoga (CV-3)
- Klasse
- Lexington-class aircraft carrier
- Herkunft
- United States
- Gesunken
- 1946 — sunk by underwater atomic test (Operation Crossroads, Test Baker), 25 Jul 1946
- Länge
- 271 m
- Penetration
- Möglich — mit Ausbildung
Eigenschaften
- Wreck
- Deep Wreck
- Trimix
- CCR Recommended
- Penetration
- Liveaboard Only
- Historic
- Permit Required
- Aircraft Carrier
- Overhead Environment
Beste Zeit
- Ideal
- Mar–Nov
- Vermeiden
- Dec–Feb
Bikini operates as a liveaboard-only destination on a chartered season. Lagoon is sheltered, so weather is rarely the constraint — logistics, charter availability, and Marshall-Islands government access permits are.
Bedingungen & Zugang
- Sicht
- 20–30 m
- Wassertemperatur
- 28–30 °C
- Strömung
- Mild
- Zugang
- Liveaboard only
- Mindeststufe
- Trimix or CCR. Flight deck sits at ~50 m and the hangar deck at ~30 m, but the dives are typically run as multi-stage tec profiles to make the most of bottom time on aircraft and the bridge.
Standort
11.5833° N, 165.5167° E
Tauchbasen, die diesen Spot ansteuern
2 Anbieter führen diesen Spot auf ihren Websites
- Indies Trader (Indies Surveyor)Majuro / Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands · Tauchsafari[Quelle]
- Master LiveaboardsRed Sea, Egypt · Tauchsafari[Quelle]
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