Shinkoku Maru

Profondeur typique

38m

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Type: Épave
Profondeur typique: 38 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 hull and bridge at 12–25 m; deep + wreck-penetration training and stage gas for the engine room and holds at 30–38 m.

Wreck
Penetration
Historic
Overhead Environment
War Grave
Engine Room
Intact Superstructure
Coral Encrusted

Quand plonger

IdéalÀ éviterCorrect

Same Chuuk dry-season window as the other Marus. Shinkoku Maru is one of the lagoon's most heavily marine-life-encrusted wrecks — coral has grown over the railings, davits and bridge wings.

7.3333° N, 151.8833° E

Notes

167 m Japanese fleet oiler bombed by carrier aircraft during Operation Hailstone, 17–18 Feb 1944. Upright with mast tips at 12 m and keel at ~39 m; bridge holds operating-room equipment, sake bottles, and porcelain.

Faune marine

Other: intact operating room with surgical tools, sake bottles and porcelain in the bridge
Corals: hard and soft coral encrusting the entire superstructure — among the most marine-grown wrecks in Chuuk
Sharks: grey reef shark
Reef fish: lionfish, batfish, snapper, grouper, glassfish

Épave

Navire: Shinkoku Maru
Classe: Imperial Japanese Navy fleet oiler
Origine: Imperial Japan
Coulé: 1944 — bombed amidships by SBD Dauntless dive bombers from USS Yorktown (CV-10) during Operation Hailstone, 17 Feb 1944; sank ~4 days later
Longueur: 167 m
Pénétration: Possible — avec formation

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