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Location
Part
of the Calamian Group.
Wartime History
On September 24, 1944 US Navy aircraft caught eleven Japanese ships at anchor in Coron Bay. Several were damaged and others sunk. Designated as National Historical Sites,
each wrecks
are alive with soft and hard corals and teeming with marine life.
The wrecks are surrounded by Japanese owned pearl farms.
Coron
Bay
Bay located between Coron and Busuanga
Islands.
Irako
Sunk September 24, 1944 at Coron Bay
Akitsushima
Sunk September 24, 1944 at Coron Bay
Kogyo
Maru
Olympia
Maru
Kyokuzan
Maru
Ship History
Possibly the Taiei Maru, lying on its starboard
side in Coron Bay.
Shipwreck
This is a beautiful wreck dive site
where you can observe groupers, sweetlips, occasionally turtles
and sea snakes. Hard corals cover the port side, which is only
12 to 16 meters below the surface. See if you can find the two
resident trumpet fish that hang out half a meter over the part
side corals. Many scorpion fish hang out around the wreck area.
Keep your eyes open and stay neutrally buoyant!
The big cargo rooms and the engine room allow
easy penetration of this wreck for Wreck Diver Certified divers.
If you dive from 10 AM to 2 PM on a sunny day you get a cathederal
like effect from the beams of sunlight entering the cargo holds
through the holes in the port side. The two massive boilers
in the center of the ship are a big attraction on this dive.
You can pass behind the boilers and see the damage resulting
from one of the bomb strikes that disabled the ship. It is possible
to do a swim-through and pass from bow to stern without exiting
the ship.
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12-16m deck
25m bottom
Freighter
Length
137m |
Ship History
This ship was a small gunboat or submarine
hunter 40 meters long.
Shipwreck
Inclined on the coral reef
on the east side of Tangat Island.
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3m bow
22m bottom
Gunboat/Sub
Hunter
Length
40m |
Ship History
This wreck was also a gunboat or submarine
hunter.
Shipwreck
The stern breaks the surface at low tide. Location:
In front of the east side of Lusong Island. This wreck is great
for snorkeling. It is nicely covered with hard corals and offers
a nice variety of fish life.
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IJN
Gunboat/Sub
Hunter
Length
40m
0m bow
11m bottom
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This wreck is the keel, ribs and stringers
of a steel-hulled boat. Location: Northwest corner of Coron
Island
This wreck was beached with the bow a dozen
meters from Coron Island. The stern points directly away from
the island. A pass through on the starboard side of the hull
at 14 meters allows you to swim from the inside of the boat
out over the coral reef.
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5m bow
22m bottom
Gunboat/Sub
Hunter
Length
25m |
Okikawa
Maru
Sunk near Busuanga Island
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Last Updated
October 20, 2009
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