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FRANKO MAPS DESCRIPTIONS – SIDE ONE BOTTOM KIYOSUMI MARU 450’ (137m), 8,614-ton Passenger-Cargo Ship
HALF rests on its port site due north of Fefan at just over 100’ (30m).
The starboard side rises to 45’(14m), and the surroundings can
YUBAE MARU 344’ (105m), 3,217-ton Army Cargo Ship sunk onto be dived beyond 100’ (30m). This ship is an ex-armed (i.e., its
a hill and slid downslope while rolling over onto her top side armament was removed) Merchant Cruiser. One of Chuuk’s
at 120’ (36m). The broken structure does not permit entry but common dives, her foreship has been blown up by a torpedo,
divers enjoy finding tableware and an anchor nearby. and the bridge and s’structure has been bombed and is partially
caved-in. The huge torpedo hole has nice marine growth includ-
ONE GUN BOAT (DAI NA HINO MARU; HINO MARU NO. 2) Small, ing black corals. The engine room is wide-open, with catwalks
998-ton Cargo Ship was the unofficial “Symbol of Truk Lagoon” and massive engine cylinders, but is not easily accessible. Divers
with its photogenic bow gun in just a few feet of water. Located find corroded and encrusted artifacts including a/a guns, aft
just offshore west of Uman Island in 3’ to 40’ (1m to 12m) of torpedo launchers, range finders, and bicycles.
water, this wreck is good for snorkeling too. The freighter was
blown inside out by two bombs midships, so other than the bow KENSHO MARU 381’ (116m), 4,862-ton Passenger-Cargo Ship
little is recognizable. sits upright with a list to port at 120’ (36m) depth. This popular
wreck is a common dive in the lagoon, located in a sheltered
SANKISAN MARU 367’ (112m), 4,776-tons Freighter suffered a spot in the middle of the Repair Anchorages area. Her deck is
bomb right in an ordinance-filled aft hold, which obliterated at 80’ (24m) and her s’structure is at 60’ (18m). She was under
her aft end, her aft fragments scattering into an 80’ (24m) deep repair at the time of the attack, but still holds many artifacts, in-
explosion crater on the 80’ deep bottom. Her forward end went cluding bottles, plates, medical tables, binoculars, a sextant, and
down upright 600’ (183m) away. The deck is 50’ (15m) deep, with a set of deer antlers. The cabins, galley and helm are all superb,
dense soft corals and other marine growth, and with her masts as is the aft repair station, but the main attraction is the easily
rising toward the surface, this is a popular dive with snorkelers. accessible engine room.
Several trucks chassis and other cargo remain in hold 2.
