Deadly Fathoms: Now For The First Time Expedition Leader Mike Harris Gives A Behind-The-Scenes Look At How His Team of Divers And Film-Makers Explored Battleships And Aircraft Carriers That Were Sunk By Atom Bomb Testing At Bikini Atoll And Lived To Talk

In 1946 the U.S. Navy conducted 'Operation Crossroads' at Bikini Lagoon in the Marshall Islands. They placed dozens of old American WWII ships, plus captured German and Japanese warships (battleships, aircraft carriers, submarines, freighters, troop carriers) in Bikini Lagoon and subjected them to two atom bomb tests. Prior to the tests they loaded each ship full of fuel and ammunition, trying to replicate wartime conditions, so they could see what would happen to the ships when they were h...