the more finicky-looking the cable management, the longer it stands the test of time

It’s a big commitment 🥳 what a tremendous day

back to posting porn 😮‍💨

Colorado

In the depths of USS Missouri
📍 Honolulu, Hawaii

#pearlharbor

The rain in Macondo culminated in a Cat 5 super typhoon that caused untold damage to the islands

Chonchon Bridge (ちょんちょん橋) supposedly got its name from the numerous military brothels that lined either side of the bridge. 800 women were “employed” to service 80000 sailors

Chonchon can mean many things; Japanese dive guides say it was Japanese naval slang for “pokey-pokey”

杜洛開拓者森小辯翁頌德碑 Memorial to Japanese plantation owner in Truk and Hawaii, Mori Koben, 1931 and 2026

Natsushima High School

Japanese Army and Civilian hospital

Mass grave and memorial to members of IJN Fourth Fleet and IJA 52nd Infantry Division

It started to rain in Macondo

It rained for 4 years, 11 months and 2 days 🌧️

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Tonowas Island (then called Dublon or Natsushima 夏島) was the HQ of three Japanese fleets - the one that attacked Pearl Harbor was only one of them. After the war, no new infrastructure were built on the island. 1/2

Full moon night

WW2-era airstrip, contoured by bunkers that are slipping into the sea

An entire machine shop

99 bottles of beer on the wall

2/2

Partially assembled Zero fighter

Zero fighter cockpit

横須賀

Miscellaneous wreck cargo from Zero fighters to newspapers 1/2

🇯🇵 Mitsubishi G4M “Betty” bomber
一式陸攻

#wreckdiving #truklagoon #tauchen

Thank you ☺️ I’ll finish this picture dump today and go back to posting porn

3 of 5 Howitzers or cannons on deck

Bridge telegraph

🇯🇵 Nippō Maru / 日豊丸 (1936 - 1944) is the third most interesting wreck in Truk Lagoon, with

🎌 One light tank
🎌 5+ howitzers
🎌 Intact bridge and engine room
🎌 Trucks and bicycles
🎌 Beer and sake bottles
🎌 Lead acid batteries
🦌 Deer antlers in the officer mess hall

#wreckdiving #truklagoon

🇳🇿 MV Hauraki (1922 - 1942)
Captured and renamed as
🇯🇵 Hōki Maru 伯耆丸 (1942 - 1944)

This wreck is mostly known for its cargo of pre-war Japanese bulldozers, tractors, steamrollers and trucks

#truklagoon #wreckdiving #thalassophobia #submechanophobia

yip yip 😛

Penumbra in red? Never 🤯

Congrats! Have a fun time!

Good Nirrod 🐶

🇯🇵 Rio de Janeiro Maru (1929 - 1944)
りおで志゛ゃねろ丸

(yes, she was spelled with letters that no longer exist)

Coral trees billowing on the kingpost 🪸

Mitsubishi A6M Zero

Bow telegraph

Name plate on an antique 1899 British cannon

🇯🇵 Fujikawa Maru (1938 - 1944) was carrying Zero fighters when it sank

富士川丸と船倉にある零戦

#wreckdiving #truklagoon #submechanophobia #thalassophobia

Torpedo control room?

Sea turtle taking flight

Depth charge rails to the right

🇯🇵 Imperial Japanese Navy destroyer Fumizuki (1926 - 1944)

駆逐艦・文月

#wreckdiving #truklagoon #submechanophobia #thalassophobia
#coralreef

🇯🇵 Shinkoku Maru oil tanker (1939 - 1944)
神国丸

⚠️ Epilepsy warning

#wreckdiving #truklagoon #submechanophobia #thalassophobia #claustrophobia

🇯🇵 San Francisco Maru (1919 - 1944)
桑港丸

Tanks, plane parts, flak guns, trucks and sea mines galore

#wreckdiving #truklagoon #submechanophobia #thalassophobia

It turns out the one I saw has a diameter as thick as my thumb, so it must be a Type 96 25 mm AA gun rather than a normal machine gun

Barrel of a Japanese heavy machine gun? 😮

🇯🇵 Imperial Japanese Navy submarine I-69
伊号第六十九潜水艦

a.k.a. I-169. Camera died under water so here’s a 2015 Wikipedia picture. Currently there’s more coral overgrowth 🪸

You went to Manchester? 😋

Escaping the Kenshō Maru 🇯🇵
(1938 - 1944)

乾祥丸から脱出

#wreckdiving #truklagoon #submechanophobia #thalassophobia

🇯🇵 14 inch shells on Yamagiri Maru (1937 - 1944)
山霧丸

#wreckdiving #truklagoon