| Kwajalein Scuba Club does not sell these videos but we do recommend them. They were all created by club members. |
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| This 42 minute video features 13 of the
shipwrecks that litter Kwajalein's lagoon floor. Twelve of the wrecks are Japanese,
mostly merchant vessels. Japan occupied the Marshall Islands prior to WWII, and
Kwajalein was invaded and captured by US forces in 1944. Many ships were sunk in the
process. The thirteenth ship, and by far the largest vessel sunk at Kwaj, is the
German Heavy Cruiser Prinz Eugen, an escort to the German Battleship Bismarck
on her famous breakout into the Atlantic that ended in the sinking of
both the Bismarck and the British Battleship Hood. Captured in Europe
at the end of WWII, the Eugen was brought to Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands,
where she was part of the target fleet anchored in Bikini Lagoon during
two atomic bomb tests in 1946. Brought to Kwajalein from Bikini after
the tests, she developed a leak that ultimately sank her. Send email to buy |
This 42 minute video focuses on coral reef
dwelling animals without backbones. The video contains 631 separate scenes
and was filmed entirely at Kwajalein, Marshall Islands, Micronesia. The
tape is set entirely to music with no narration, although a booklet describing
each scene is included. Send email to buy |
This 45 minute
video contains more than 400 separate scenes
of marine animals and was filmed entirely at Kwajalein, Marshall Islands,
Micronesia. The tape is set entirely to music with no narration. A short
booklet identifying the animals in each scene is included, but a more
detailed write up that includes numerous captured frames is available
for download in PDF format. Send email to buy |
During the months of July and August 2000,
members of Oceanic Research Group along with history and dive specialists filmed the
underwater sequences for their fifth full-feature documentary, The Silent Wrecks
of Kwajalein Atoll. During the Second World War, Japanese and American
forces fought for control of the Pacific. Kwajalein Atoll, part of the
Marshall Islands, saw several battles during which many ships and planes
came to rest on the floor of her lagoon. This film examines the battle
for Kwajalein through the underwater wrecks of those battles. Because
Kwajalein has remained a U. S. military base since the war, few filmmakers
have been able to film these wrecks, but Oceanic Research Group was granted
permission by the U. S. Army and the Republic of Marshall Islands to enter
her waters. The silent wrecks may now tell their story. Learn more and order it online |