I'm sure this topic has been covered before, but I thought I would share this media story because it was only posted on Jan 26th 2007.
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Tourism has barely begun to develop in the Marshalls, and the absence of frequent airplane flights, first-class hotels and restaurants, golf courses and other amenities has resulted in just a trickle of overseas visitors to this unspoiled and off-the-beaten-track nation.
Driving at about 15 miles per hour (the speed limit is 25, but drivers must be alert to coconuts littering the road, people running hither and yon, wandering dogs, pigs, goats and chickens), I finally reached the "Duck Site," the final resting place of a World War II-era U.S. Navy Drumman Duck float plane that crashed on approach to Majuro's military airfield during the struggles between the United States and Japan.
The "Duck" sits in about 11 feet of water, is well-preserved and is surrounded by coral and fish. Snorkel and SCUBA-equipped divers come to the islands to explore the wrecked plane, and I chatted with several Australians who were donning their equipment in preparation for a dive.
Also found on the atoll is a dive site called the "Parking Lot," located off nearby Ejit Island, where dozens of surplus U.S. Army jeeps and trucks and small Navy craft were sunk at war's end. They, too, are surrounded by coral reefs and tropical fish and are explored by underwater divers.
Just offshore from the Marshall Islands Resort Hotel are the remains of an F6F "Hellcat" fighter plane that was hit during combat with a Japanese "Zero." Other underwater dive sites include a Grumman "Avenger" aircraft, the sunken freighter Kabilok, which carried copra (dried coconut meat) between the islands, a 150-foot passenger and freight ship sunk during a storm, a U.S. B-24 "Liberator" bomber sunk in only 12 feet of water and a DC-3 cargo plane.
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The full article is here
http://www.lahontanvalleynews.com/artic ... /101260035_________________
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