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Marshall Islands
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A remote central-Pacific republic of 29 coral atolls and five islands strung across the equator north of the line, home to the capital Majuro and to Bikini Atoll, whose sunken nuclear ghost fleet is one of the great wreck-diving destinations on earth. A nation of navigators, its people mapped the ocean swells with stick charts long before instruments.
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Scuba Diving
- Bikini AtollMay Jun Jul Aug Sep OctBikini Atoll is the greatest deep-wreck dive on the planet and a bucket-list pilgrimage for technical divers. In 1946 the US Navy assembled a fleet of captured and surplus warships here for Operation Crossroads, two atomic tests that sank them where they floated. The lagoon now holds the USS Saratoga, the only diveable aircraft carrier in the world, her 270 metre flight deck sitting upright in the blue, alongside the Japanese flagship battleship Nagato that led the attack on Pearl Harbor, the battleship USS Arkansas and the submarine USS Apogon. Visibility runs 40 to 60 metres over these steel giants, but the diving is serious: average depths around 50 metres and long decompression put Bikini firmly in the technical realm. Add the human weight of the place, an atoll whose people were moved off for the tests and have never fully returned, and this is diving as history, reached only by a small liveaboard on a long ocean crossing.
- MajuroJan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Nov DecMajuro is the everyday diving of the Marshall Islands, the reachable counterpoint to Bikini's technical pilgrimage. The capital atoll rings a huge lagoon, and just outside it the reef falls away into clear, warm ocean, with visibility over 30 metres and water around 29 degrees year-round. Divers come for the outer-reef walls and passes, coral gardens on the lagoon side, a scatter of WWII wrecks from the atoll's wartime role, and reliable numbers of grey reef and other sharks patrolling the drop-offs. Because so few divers reach this corner of the Pacific, the sites are quiet and the reef is in good health. Majuro is also the practical launch point for the Marshalls: it is where you fly in, find the country's established dive operator, and can arrange onward technical trips to Bikini. For a diver who wants big ocean, sharks and wrecks without crowds, this is a properly off-the-map base.
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