(Picture Credit:- Hisashi Noma, ‘Japanese Merchant Ships at War’, publ.2004)
Dear Divers,
We‘ve just returned from an exploratory trip to the east of Samui.
Now we’ve definitely found the Tottori Maru along with the Sakura and Nanmei Marus.
These three were sunk in 1945 by USS Hammerhead, so we’ll be naming this trip the Hammerhead trip.
We can leave from Koh Tao or Samui, it’s an easy over-night steam to the first maru.
They’re all close together in 70m of very clear water.Confirmed dates for the next few months;
April 19- 23rd – Vlado and Pornsri
May 3 -6th – HTMS Pangan and Tanker Maru
May 15 – 21 st – Lagarto, Seacrest and Kinrei Maru – John Chatterton’s on this one
August 20th -25th , either Vlado / Pornsri , or Seacrest/Lagarto , to be decided.
The weather’s good until November so any other dates, say the word and we’ll put a trip together
Yours, Jamie
MV Trident, Koh Tao www.techthailand.com