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Chuuk Lagoon, Micronesia

Nippo Maru

Typische Tiefe

47m

Typ
Wrack
Typische Tiefe
47 m
Niveau
Technical
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.
  • Wreck
  • Penetration
  • Deep Wreck
  • Trimix
  • Historic
  • Overhead Environment
  • Tanks On Deck
  • War Grave

Beste Zeit

IdealVermeidenOK

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.

7.3850° N, 151.8567° E

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

Tauchbasen, die diesen Spot ansteuern

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