Exploration
Exploring the Bikini Atoll’s USS Saratoga
Journey with GUE graybeards Richard Lundgren and Jesper Kjøller through the bowels of the USS Saratoga, a Lexington-class aircraft carrier that was sunk during the United States’ Operation Crossroads (atomic bomb tests in Bikini Atoll) in July 1946. Like what you see? Check out The Dirty Dozen’s Critical Experiment Expeditions.
With so many penetration possibilities and an abundance of details inside and outside, you could easily go to Bikini Atoll and spend a whole week just diving the USS Saratoga. In fact, if the aircraft carrier was the only wreck here, it would still be worth the long travel.
Click the image below to watch the video.
Divers: Richard Lundgren & Jesper Kjøller
Video, photos and editing: Jesper Kjøller
Watch more DiveGUE.tv videos on InDepth.
DiveGUE.tv was created to provide a supplementary educational platform for scuba diving enthusiasts. We believe these materials will increase global awareness of GUE training, thereby inspiring divers from around the world to establish and maintain a unified perspective, help ease diver anxiety, enhance class readiness, aid in skill maintenance, and encourage otherwise undecided or unsure divers to seek out training.
DiveGUE.tv is a production of Global Underwater Explorers (GUE), the 501(c)(3) nonprofit committed to high-quality diver education and to exploration and conservation of the world’s aquatic environments. Learn more.