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Awesome report, the quality of the shoot is so viv...

2009-04-20T11:23:00.000-07:00

Awesome report, the quality of the shoot is so vivid and yet so macabre in their vintage feel.

Thanks for the post!

The ships were not sunk by accident, as per the re...

2009-03-02T12:11:00.000-08:00

The ships were not sunk by accident, as per the report, but deliberatly by the Able and Baker blasts in 1946 (Operation Crossroads.)

Additionally, the Castle Bravo test did not "poison the islanders who inhabited the test site," because the Bikini islanders had been moved off the atoll for the 1946 blasts. Because of radiation and subsequent blasts, they had not returned in 1956. Anyway, the Bravo blast vaporized three islands in the atoll, and certainly no islanders were living on them.

Rongelap Atoll (about 100 miles from Bikini) is famous for having received a rather unhealthy and unplanned snow of fallout from Bravo, because the blast was carried out in spite of the wind that day not blowing in the expected direction. Perhaps that is the confusion.

A good synopsis of the nuclear history of Bikini, as well as info on the sunken ships in the lagoon, can be found here for reference: http://www.bikiniatoll.com/history.html and http://www.bikiniatoll.com/divetour1.html

Fantastic post! Those underwater photos of the shi...

2008-12-08T12:22:00.000-08:00

Fantastic post! Those underwater photos of the ship are amazing, especially the phones and the helmets. Very, very surreal. On a somewhat lighter note, I recently visited the Atomic Testing Museum in Las Vegas, a very interesting place. Here's my post: http://eccentricroadside.blogspot.com/search/label/Atomic%20testing%20museum
Keep up the good blogging!
Gunnar