- Type
- Wreck
- Typical depth
- 35 m
- Level
- Advanced
- Visibility
- 15–30 m
- Water temp
- 28–30 °C
- Current
- Mild
- Access
- Open access
- Min cert
- 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
When to dive
BestAvoidOK
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.
Marine life
- 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
Wreck
- Vessel
- Fujikawa Maru
- Class
- aircraft transport / armed merchant
- Origin
- Imperial Japan
- Sunk
- 1944 — US Navy aerial torpedo attack during Operation Hailstone, 17–18 Feb 1944
- Length
- 133 m
- Penetration
- Possible — with training
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Sources
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