Kasi Maru

Kasi Maru

Kasi Maru (or Kashi Maru) is a Japanese merchant ship that was sunk in Mbaeroko Bay, near Munda, during a World War II bombing raid on 2 July 1943. Kashi Maru was built in 1940 at Osaka Iron. The site of the shipwreck is popular for divers, and was featured in the "Nature" episode “War Wrecks of the Coral Seas”.

External links

* [http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/~kim/photos/solomons/gallery/tn/uw009_6A.jpg.html Recent surface photo of the Kasi Maru site]
* [http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/warwrecks/solomons.html War Wrecks of the Coral Seas]


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