November 3, 2011
Blog ArchivesDiving the Spectacular Japanese Ship Graveyard of Truk Lagoon, Micronesia
Truk Lagoon in Micronesia became home to a spectacular sunken ship graveyard after Operation Hailstone, a massive US Navy assault launched against the Japanese fleet in 1944. Among them is the San Francisco Maru, known as the Million Dollar Wreck.
Ozlem: a Surprisingly Colourful Shipwreck
There’s something strangely appealing and slightly haunting about shipwrecks. For what are arguably rusting environmentally-unfriendly hulks, some – like the wreck of Ozlem along the Black Sea coast – are surprisingly colourful.
Lost Villages and Shipwrecks on Scotland’s Mysterious Islands
For thousands of years, human beings have successfully adapted to their environments and coped with some of the toughest challenges that nature could throw their way. But some places are just so wild that after several millennia, hardy settlers have little choice but to abandon their homes. As such, the lonely islands off the north west coast of Scotland are a swirling mixture of windswept grasslands, craggy sea stacks, shipwrecks and abandoned settlements.