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Bikini Trip
Best Pictures of Bikini Trip, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, with Mad Dog Expeditions.  Check out the pictures of these historical wrecks and historical pictures znc video from US National Archives in album #5.

All under water pictures taken with Nikon D70 camera housed in Aquatica A70 housing with twin SB-105s and UK Light Cannon HID with difuser.  Shots in Majuro were mostly taken with 60mm lense.  All shots of wrecks taken with 12-24mm zoom lense.
Date(s): April 1, 2005. 1 - 7 of 7 Total. Shared
Majuro
1. Majuro  (April 1st  2005)
Pictures of diving at Majuro and Arno Atolls on way to Bikini.  This was my first stop in the Marshall Islands on the way to Bikini Atoll and an extended one as we had problems with the inter-island flights here.  Diving was exceptional.
187 Visits
40 Images
Shared Album
USS Saratoga, Bikini Atoll
2. USS Saratoga, Bikini Atoll  (April 2nd 2005)
This is an INCREDIBLE Wreck to dive.  It is complete with everything on board including planes, bombs, torpedos, munitions, missiles, etc...  It appears that they expected to return to the ship after the Baker Blast.  Ovens were on at 350 with turkeys in them.
141 Visits
28 Images
Shared Album
HIJMS Nagato, Bikini Atoll
3. HIJMS Nagato, Bikini Atoll  (April 2nd 2005)
A DARK wreck.  She was "miss treated" after the war.  It sucked all the light from my twin SB-105 strobes + HID light.  This wreck does not appear to want to be photographed.  Dive #2 on the Nagato brought me more problems with the flashes.  None the less, I got these pictures.
120 Visits
9 Images
Shared Album
USS Lamson, Bikini Atoll
4. USS Lamson, Bikini Atoll  (April 2nd 2005)
The USS Lamson was hit by a Kamakase aircraft in the bridge area.  Most officers and about 1/4 of her total crew were killed in this attack.  It's a bieutifull wreck to dive, sitting upright.
98 Visits
11 Images
Shared Album
Historical footage & Pictures
5. Historical footage & Pictures  (25th of July 1946)
The Baker blast was detonated 90 feet (27 meters) underwater on 25 July 1946 as part of operation Crossroads at Bikini Atoll.  

The footage probably originates from national archives.  Edited from C. Storey 2005.
76 Visits
5 Images
Shared Album
Surface and Air
6. Surface and Air  (April 2005)
66 Visits
8 Images
Shared Album
On Location
7. On Location  (April 2005)
Pictures of me taken by others during the trip.
96 Visits
4 Images
Shared Album

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