Ghost Fleet: The Sunken Ships of Bikini Atoll
by James P. Delgado
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Author: James P. DelgadoEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1996-10
ISBN: 0824818644
Number of pages: 216
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Summary of Ghost Fleet: The Sunken Ships of Bikini Atoll
In July 1946 a fleet of 242 ships, among them some of the most famous of World War II, assembled within the lagoon of Bikini Atoll, 4,500 miles from San Francisco. There, in a massive military effort dubbed Operation Crossroads, thousands of scientists and U.S. military personnel gathered to assess the atomic bomb's effect on warships in the world's first nuclear weapons tests.Four decades later, in 1989, a highly trained team of underwater archaeologists returned to Bikini to evalu-ate the ships as historic and archaeological sites and as potential diving attractions. In Ghost Fleet, author James Delgado, a member of that team, offers a fascinating account of Operation Crossroads and the forgotten remains that have turned Bikini's lagoon into a vast underwater ghost town.
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