Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands

Site of numerous atomic-bomb tests, the Bikini Atoll has been “cleaned up” and opened as a unique wreck-dive site including the retired aircraft carrier USS Saratoga used as a A-bomb test candidate resting at the bottom, along with WWII planes.

With local produce and seafood still being contaminated and dive-boats being required to be self-contained – including fuel – I assume that the time at which any divers in quantity will be able and willing to reach this site is still decades away. Unfortunately.

The Baker test which sunk the ships:

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