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d'avions, de navires coulés par les
avions japonais durant l'attaque de
Pearl Habor a Hawaï en 1944
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6. Truk Lagoon, known as Chuuk – a group of tropical paradise islands in the Federal
States of Micronesia – offers adrenaline-junky scuba divers a cool yet creepy
underwater adventure in shark-infested Pacific waters while wreck diving the
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mysterious Ghost Fleet of Truk Lagoon.
More than 50 major shipwrecks from
WWII litter the seabed, making the undersea wonder of the world the best shipwreck
diving destination on the globe. In 1944, Americans launched , which has been
called the Japanese Pearl Harbor, and the bombardment lasted for three days. The
attack wiped out 60 ships and 275 airplanes, sinking them to the bottom of the
lagoon, so that now it is the biggest ship graveyard in the world. Most of the wrecks
were left untouched for nearly 25 years since people feared setting off the
thousands of sunken bombs.
Many of the shipwrecks in the scuba diving paradise have full cargo holds full of
fighter aircraft, tanks, bulldozers, railroad cars, motorcycles, torpedoes, mines,
bombs, boxes of munitions, radios, thousands of various weapons, human remains,
and other artifacts.
More than 3,000 people were thought to have been killed and some divers swear
that the wrecks in Truk Lagoon are haunted. conducted an underwater ghost
hunting expedition in Truk Lagoon.
While diving at the Hoki Maru, the divers recorded sounds of running engines in the
cargo hold full of trucks.
Here’s a virtual adventure with wreck divers who explored and photographed the
Ghost Fleet of Truk Lagoon.

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Photos de gh0stdot, Angell Williams et Matt Kieffer
Ce 26 juillet 2011
À la demande de Paul Demontigny