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Chuuk Lagoon, Micronesia

Nippo Maru

Profondeur typique

47m

Type
Épave
Profondeur typique
47 m
Niveau
Technical
Visibilité
15–30 m
Température
28–30 °C
Courant
Mild
Accès
Open access
Niveau requis
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

Quand plonger

IdéalÀ éviterCorrect

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

Notes

'Tank wreck' — Japanese armed cargo with a Type 95 Ha-Go tank on deck, water tanker, and field guns. Cargo holds open to penetration.

Faune marine

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

Épave

Navire
Nippo Maru
Classe
armed Japanese auxiliary cargo / water tanker
Origine
Imperial Japan
Coulé
1944 — US Navy aerial bombing during Operation Hailstone, 17–18 Feb 1944
Longueur
108 m
Pénétration
Possible — avec formation

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