Site de plongée
Chuuk Lagoon, Micronesia
Fujikawa Maru
Profondeur typique
35m
- Type
- Épave
- Profondeur typique
- 35 m
- Niveau
- Advanced
- Visibilité
- 15–30 m
- Température
- 28–30 °C
- Courant
- Mild
- Accès
- Open access
- Niveau requis
- Advanced Open Water + wreck specialty for the upper holds and bridge; engine-room penetration through five decks down to the boiler room is a serious tec dive — wreck/penetration training and stage gas required.
- Wreck
- Penetration
- Historic
- Overhead Environment
- Aircraft Cargo
- War Grave
- Engine Room
Quand plonger
IdéalÀ éviterCorrect
Sheltered lagoon — divable year-round; dry season offers calmer surface conditions and clearer water. Recreational divers visit the upper holds; the engine-room descent is a tec staple.
7.3508° N, 151.8814° E
Notes
Aircraft transport sunk Operation Hailstone, Feb 1944. Disassembled A6M Zeros and an A5M Claude in the forward holds; engine-room penetration is a classic deep-tec dive.
Faune marine
- Other
- eight disassembled Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighters and one A5M 'Claude' in the forward holds
- Corals
- hard and soft coral on the masts, kingposts and deck guns
- Sharks
- grey reef shark
- Reef fish
- batfish, glassfish, lionfish, snapper
Épave
- Navire
- Fujikawa Maru
- Classe
- aircraft transport / armed merchant
- Origine
- Imperial Japan
- Coulé
- 1944 — US Navy aerial torpedo attack during Operation Hailstone, 17–18 Feb 1944
- Longueur
- 133 m
- Pénétration
- Possible — avec formation
Clubs de plongée qui visitent ce site
- Master Liveaboardssource
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- Odyssey Adventures Truk Lagoonsource
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- SS Thorfinn (Seaward Holidays Micronesia)source
Chuuk Lagoon, Federated States of Micronesia · Croisière
- Truk Stop Hotel & Dive Centersource
Weno, Chuuk, Federated States of Micronesia · Centre de plongée
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