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I was watching the Discovery channel last night and they had 
a show on Bikini Atoll.  It seems that the national park
service was out there surveying the wrecks in the lagoon.
The radiation levels on the wrecks was almost nonexistent.
The wrecks range in depths from 130 to 200 feet.  The
higlighted ships were the aircraft carrier Saratoga, a
Japanese battleship (Yamamoto's Flagship(sorry short term
memory problems)), and an american sub.
Highlights included a Navy diver with rebreather difusing a 
500lb bomb on the saratoga.  It seems the US wanted to know 
if ordinace would go of in nuclear blast, it seems they did 
not.  Another highlight was the battleship being upsidedown.
 The bridge has broken of and is laying on it side(not
having been crushed by the overturning wreck)   The goal of 
the survey was to identify hazards (radiation levels,
unexploded bombs, dangerous wreakage, etc.)  It seems that
the bikinians plan on creating a dive industry.
In retrospect:
200 ft depths
6th largest fleet ever assemebled (all sunk)
Subs, Carriers, Battleships, and everything else imaginable. 
No radation hazards
240 square miles of wrecks
Plus a cool name (bikini)
I was led to believe tourism to start within the next 5yr

IM MOVING TO BIKINI
-Charles
Dyslexics of the world untie! 

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