Tauchplatz
Nippo Maru
Chuuk Lagoon, Micronesia
- Typische Tiefe
- 47 m
- Typ
- Wrack
- Niveau
- Technical
Notizen
'Tank wreck' — Japanese armed cargo with a Type 95 Ha-Go tank on deck, water tanker, and field guns. Cargo holds open to penetration.
Meereslebewesen
- Other
- Type 95 Ha-Go light tank on the port side of the foredeck — Chuuk's most photographed wreck detail
- Corals
- soft coral on the deck guns and king posts
- Sharks
- grey reef shark
- Reef fish
- batfish, snapper, grouper, glassfish
Wrack
- Schiff
- Nippo Maru
- Klasse
- armed Japanese auxiliary cargo / water tanker
- Herkunft
- Imperial Japan
- Gesunken
- 1944 — US Navy aerial bombing during Operation Hailstone, 17–18 Feb 1944
- Länge
- 108 m
- Penetration
- Möglich — mit Ausbildung
Eigenschaften
- Wreck
- Penetration
- Deep Wreck
- Trimix
- Historic
- Overhead Environment
- Tanks On Deck
- War Grave
Beste Zeit
- Ideal
- Dec–Apr
- Vermeiden
- Jul–Sep
Same Chuuk dry-season window as the other Marus. Nippo Maru sits upright with her deck around 40 m and superstructure shallower; the famous tank, water tanker and field artillery on the foredeck are the headline.
Bedingungen & Zugang
- Sicht
- 15–30 m
- Wassertemperatur
- 28–30 °C
- Strömung
- Mild
- Zugang
- Open access
- Mindeststufe
- Deep + wreck specialty for the deck dive; trimix recommended for any meaningful bottom time around the holds and engine room. Bridge area is intact and penetrable for trained wreck divers.
Standort
7.3850° N, 151.8567° E
Tauchbasen, die diesen Spot ansteuern
3 Anbieter führen diesen Spot auf ihren Websites
- Master LiveaboardsRed Sea, Egypt · Tauchsafari[Quelle]
- Odyssey Adventures Truk LagoonChuuk Lagoon, Federated States of Micronesia · Tauchsafari[Quelle]
- Truk Stop Hotel & Dive CenterWeno, Chuuk, Federated States of Micronesia · Tauchbasis[Quelle]
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