- Type
- Wreck
- Typical depth
- 52 m
- Level
- Technical
- Visibility
- 20–30 m
- Water temp
- 28–30 °C
- Current
- Mild
- Access
- Liveaboard only
- Min cert
- Trimix or CCR. Inverted hull, no realistic penetration; the dive is about the propellers, the casemate guns, and the sheer scale.
- Wreck
- Deep Wreck
- Trimix
- CCR Recommended
- Liveaboard Only
- Historic
- Permit Required
- Battleship
- Inverted Hull
When to dive
BestAvoidOK
Same liveaboard window as the rest of Bikini. Nagato lies inverted under ~52 m of water — the underside of the hull is the closest you can get; the bridge and 16-inch turrets are crushed beneath.
11.5856° N, 165.5256° E
Notes
Japanese battleship and Yamamoto's flagship at Pearl Harbor. Sunk inverted in 1946 atomic tests; superstructure crushed under hull.
Marine life
- Other
- the four bronze propellers — visible from below the upturned stern
- Corals
- encrusting coral on the exposed hull
- Sharks
- grey reef shark
- Reef fish
- snapper, grouper, batfish
Wreck
- Vessel
- IJN Nagato
- Class
- Nagato-class battleship; Yamamoto's flagship at the attack on Pearl Harbor
- Origin
- Imperial Japan
- Sunk
- 1946 — sunk by underwater atomic test (Operation Crossroads, Test Baker, 25 Jul 1946); capsized and sank during the night of 29/30 Jul 1946, ~5 days after the detonation
- Length
- 224 m
- Penetration
- Not advised
Dive clubs that visit this site
- Indies Trader (Indies Surveyor)source
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- Master Liveaboardssource
Red Sea, Egypt · Liveaboard
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