Marshall Islands – Bikini, Kwajalein & Majuro
The Marshall Islands are a remote chain of coral atolls in the central Pacific. Bikini Atoll holds the ships sunk in the 1946 Operation Crossroads nuclear tests, including the aircraft carrier USS Saratoga and the battleships Nagato and Arkansas, all deep technical dives reached only by an occasional liveaboard. At Kwajalein the German cruiser Prinz Eugen lies capsized on the reef, but the atoll is a US Army base with restricted access. Majuro, the capital, offers a small, informal local operator for lagoon reefs, a DC-3 wreck and drift dives in the passes.