Diving the IJNS Nagato,

Bikini Atoll, summer 2006...




Admiral Yamamoto's flagship, the battleship Nagato...



 

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A jumble of wreckage at 50 plus meters - the Japanese flagship of Admiral Yamamoto from which he issued the notorious order to attack Pearl Harbour...

The wreck is not completely upside down but almost. The top hamper is crushed and smashed across the seabed...

Tracy reaches the seabed...

The battle direction area on the top of the mast... look at the black and white picture and see if you can make sense of where this is...

The battle direction room atop the mast...

Looking into Yamamoto's fighting bridge...

Swimming beneath the upturned hull of the massive ship, one of the massive 17" gun barrels can be seen to the right of the picture...

Tracy in remarkable control of her faculties despite the effect of narcosis brought on by breathing air at 51 meters. Martin was severely puddled and very apprehensive!

Our guide Jen points out the tampions used to plug the end of the barrels to prevent seawater ingress...

The tampion in place...

Thousands of timy fish cloud parts of the wreck...

Tracy dissapears into the bomb-handling store...

Tracy appears again through a cloud of silt kicked up by the group as they swim through the bomb-handling store...

 A long, long decompression breathing 74% Nitrox on a trapeze beneath the boat before finally ascending to finish the day's diving...