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		<title>Truk. Dive 11 &#8211; Kansho Maru</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 01:21:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Kansho is one of my favourite dives, primarily because of her engine room. She was built in 1938 as a passenger / cargo ferry, but was taken over by the Japanese navy and a 3 inch bow gun was fitted. She was used for transporting supplies and was bombed in Kwajalein. Her engine room [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Truk. Dive 10 &#8211; Shinkoku Maru</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 02:05:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Shinkoku is a lovely dive with good coral growth and excellent fish life. She was built in 1939 as a tanker, and she originally carried oil from the US, before the oil embargo was imposed. She was then converted into a fleet oiler and supported Admiral Nagano&#8217;s strike force in the Pearl Harbour attack. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Truk. Dive 8 &#8211; San Francisco Maru</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 01:55:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I asked Rob for a good wreck for my 600th dive and he certainly delivered. The San Francisco Maru was built in 1919 as a medium freighter. She had been in semi-retirement when the war started, but was used by the Japanese navy for carrying cargo. She was fully loaded in February 1944 when she [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Truk. Dive 7 &#8211; Futagami Fleet Tug</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 06:18:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Futagami was a large salvage tug, and was launched in 1939. She carried salvage derricks, as well as pumps and hoses. She was involved in the unsuccessful attempts to raise the I-169 submarine, which we had dived earlier in the day. Her sinking seems to be a bit of a mystery, and it may [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Truk. Dive 6 &#8211; Kikukawa Maru</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 01:36:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On my two previous visits I had not dived this wreck. Opinions on it seem to be polarised. Beforehand I was told that it was so badly damaged that it was practically empty and just a shell, which was largely true. I was also told that there were masses of fish on it, and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Truk. Dive 5 &#8211; Heian Maru</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 01:41:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Heian Maru is the largest wreck still in Truk Lagoon. She was built in 1930 as a passenger / cargo liner, but was converted in to a submarine tender. She was sunk on the 2nd day of Operation Hailstone when a torpedo hit her engine room. She now lies on her port side in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Truk. Dive 4 &#8211; The I-169 Submarine</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 05:47:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Day 2 had a submarine theme, with a dive on the I-169 sub, followed by the Heian Maru Submarine tender and the Futagami tug that attempted to raise the I-169. The I-169 was built for the Japanese navy, and was launched on 15th Feb 1934. She was involved in the attack on Pearl Harbour, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WW I passenger ship found off NZ</title>
		<link>http://www.divethoughts.com/ww-i-passenger-ship-found-off-n/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 00:53:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On 26 June 1918 the Wimmera, an Australian passenger ship, hit a German mine north of New Zealand. She sank with the loss of 26 lives out of 151 passengers and crew. Now Mike Hodson, an Auckland electronics expert, and his team claim to have found it in about 90 metres of water. During the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The HMS Poseidon Story</title>
		<link>http://www.divethoughts.com/the-hms-poseidon-story/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 01:03:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Steven Schwankert is a diver and journalist based in Beijing. He has been along to SCDC&#8217;s Thursday night club night on a number of occasions, and gave a hugely entertaining talk on diving Lake Khovsgol in Mongolia. Around that time he had embarked on a new project which is just now coming to fruition. He [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Remains Found on 18th Century Warship</title>
		<link>http://www.divethoughts.com/remains-found-on-18th-century-warship/</link>
		<comments>http://www.divethoughts.com/remains-found-on-18th-century-warship/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 05:08:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[HMS Victory was Nelson&#8217;s flagship at Trafalgar, but it was the 6th ship of that name to serve with the Royal Navy. Its predecessor was also a 100 gun ship of the line and was  launched in 1737. However it sank in 1744 in the western approaches to the English Channel with the loss of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Video of WWII sunken hospital ship</title>
		<link>http://www.divethoughts.com/video-of-wwii-sunken-hospital-ship/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 10:16:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The BBC website has a video of the wreck of the Centaur, an Australian World War 2 hospital ship. It sank in May 1943 with the loss of 268 lives after being torpedoed by a Japanese submarine. You can see the video on the BBC website.]]></description>
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		<title>WWII Hospital ship found off Queensland</title>
		<link>http://www.divethoughts.com/wwii-hospital-ship-found-off-queensland/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 01:54:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The AHS Centaur, a hospital ship that was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine in May 1943 has been found near Brisbane in 2059m of water. There were 332 people on board when it was hit and only 64 survived. The wreck is located about 30 nautical miles east of the southern tip of Moreton Island. [...]]]></description>
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