English: Deep sea divers preparing to explore the sunken battleship SARATOGA, Bikini Atoll, summer 1947
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United States Navy
Title
English: Deep sea divers preparing to explore the sunken battleship SARATOGA, Bikini Atoll, summer 1947
Description
English:
Images documenting the 1947 Bikini Resurvey Project. The Saratoga was sunk as a target vessel during the 21 kiloton underwater nuclear weapons test, known as Operation Crossroads (Event Baker), in Bikini Atoll's lagoon July 25, 1946.
Caption in scrapbook: Deep sea divers on stage for first descent on SARATOGA.
ABCR 5018-11
Bikini Atoll Radiological Survey Scrapbook, p. 23.
Subjects (LCSH): Deep diving--Marshall Islands--Bikini Atoll; Scuba apparatus--Marshall Islands--Bikini Atoll
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