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Coron Bay. Coron Bay is a well-known recreational diving region in the Sulu Sea in the western Philippines, between the islands of Coron and Busuanga in the Calamian Islands. Most of Coron Bay is in the Coron Island Protected Area and is a traditional fishing area of the indigenous Tagbanwa tribe. Coron Bay is famous for diving on ten Japanese ...
6 × Type 95 depth charges. 1 × Type 94 depth charge thrower (Y-gun) Aircraft carried. 1 × flying boat (in anchorage only) Aviation facilities. deck and crane. Akitsushima (秋津洲) was a seaplane tender of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN), serving during World War II from 1942 until being sunk in September 1944.
Coron is known for wreck diving Wreck dive sites are found in depths as shallow as 12 metres (39 ft) and as deep as 43 metres (141 ft). Wreck diving sites in Coron Bay include the Akitsushima, Irako, Kogyo Maru, Kyokuzan Maru, Okikawa Maru, Olympia Maru. [4]
Trucks, part of the cargo of Thistlegorm. She left Glasgow on her final voyage on 2 June 1941, destined for Alexandria, Egypt.The ship's cargo included: Bedford trucks, Universal Carrier armoured vehicles, Norton 16H and BSA motorcycles, Bren guns, cases of ammunition, and 0.303 rifles as well as radio equipment, Wellington boots, aircraft parts, railway wagons [7] and two LMS Stanier Class 8F ...
The Grumman HU-16 Albatross is a large, twin– radial engined amphibious seaplane that was used by the United States Air Force (USAF), the U.S. Navy (USN), the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG), and the Royal Canadian Air Force primarily as a search and rescue (SAR) aircraft. Originally designated as the SA-16 for the USAF and the JR2F-1 and UF-1 for ...
RMS Rhone was a UK Royal Mail Ship owned by the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company (RMSP). She was wrecked off the coast of Salt Island in the British Virgin Islands on 29 October 1867 in a hurricane, killing 123 people. She is now a popular Caribbean wreck dive site. [4]
The Titan’s wreckage was seen for the first time in pictures after the Coast Guard announced on Thursday (23 June) that ROVs (remotely-operated vehicles) found its chambers in a sea of debris 1 ...
A year after the wreck, Surfers Against Sewage (SAS) reported that plastic and foam from the wreckage was still washing up on Cornish beaches. [7] By 2018, the wreck had been broken up by the strong swell around Land's End although some relatively intact sections of the wreck remain. [8] [9] [10]