Overseas

That night we steamed south to Coron. Here the Japanese had hidden a supply fleet in 1944. They camouflaged the ships, but American reconnaissance noticed that several of the islands in Coron Bay were moving. In the resulting air raids, 24 ships were sunk, of which 12 are diveable. We were divided among the 2 chase boats, with Steve, Captain Cortisone, Keith, Nigel, Trevor, Davina, Eva and Les in one; and Pam, Kevin, Suzie, Peter, Laurie, Craig, Louisa and me in the other. First dive was on the Akitsushima which was in 34 metres of water. Pam found some material draped along the ship which Davina swore was velvet, although why a WW2 flying boat tender would have had velvet curtains is beyond me. Second and third dives were on a tanker called Taiei Maru. This was upright in 24 metres and was a lovely wreck with tons of fish life. 3 years ago when we attempted to do a night dive on this wreck we were confronted by a boatload of men from the local oyster farm armed with assault rifles. They were presumably worried we might wake up their oysters. This time we had no such problem. The 2 dive masters tried to lead each of the groups on a short penetration of this wreck. By the time the last of the group had gone into the wreck it was completely silted up and they couldn t see anything. After a spirited discussion with the dive masters we started diving as buddy pairs

Discovery Divers - Coron - Details of wreck diving in Coron.

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