Site de plongée
Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands
USS Saratoga (CV-3)
Profondeur typique
50m
- Type
- Épave
- Profondeur typique
- 50 m
- Niveau
- Technical
- Visibilité
- 20–30 m
- Température
- 28–30 °C
- Courant
- Mild
- Accès
- Liveaboard only
- Niveau requis
- 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.
- Wreck
- Deep Wreck
- Trimix
- CCR Recommended
- Penetration
- Liveaboard Only
- Historic
- Permit Required
- Aircraft Carrier
- Overhead Environment
Quand plonger
IdéalÀ éviterCorrect
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.
11.5833° N, 165.5167° E
Notes
Lexington-class aircraft carrier sunk in the 1946 Operation Crossroads Baker atomic test. Flight deck at ~50 m, hull to ~55 m.
Faune marine
- 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
Épave
- Navire
- USS Saratoga (CV-3)
- Classe
- Lexington-class aircraft carrier
- Origine
- United States
- Coulé
- 1946 — sunk by underwater atomic test (Operation Crossroads, Test Baker), 25 Jul 1946
- Longueur
- 271 m
- Pénétration
- Possible — avec formation
Clubs de plongée qui visitent ce site
- Indies Trader (Indies Surveyor)source
Majuro / Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands · Croisière
- Master Liveaboardssource
Red Sea, Egypt · Croisière
Sources
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