More than 80 years after Operation Hailstone, the wrecks of Truk Lagoon (now Chuuk Lagoon) remain one of the world's greatest ...

A once important naval base was turned into one of the world's largest underwater graveyards of ships and aircraft. Chuuk Lagoon, an atoll in the central Pacific, is part of the Chuuk State within ...

“You’ve got a really healthy ecosystem with amazing corals and healthy marine life on these amazing structures,” says Matt Carter, Research Director at ocean research and conservation charity Major ...

The great bombings left the lagoons of both Bikini and Chuuk littered with shipwrecks. Nature has miraculously restored their waters and made the sunken fleets among the greatest diving destinations ...

Beneath the turquoise waters of Chuuk Lagoon lies a graveyard of World War Two shipwrecks, rusting hulks still packed with oil, quietly breaking down and threatening disaster for the communities above ...

The remnants of World War II echo deep throughout the Pacific, and that’s no truer than in Chuuk Lagoon, where dozens of Japanese military ships have met their watery graves. Nearly 7,000 tons of ...