ARCHIVE: Pilot and history of the Helldiver wreck uncoveredin Featured Article, War Articles / by Jack /
on August 31, 2012 at 18:38 /
In January of 2010, a team of divers lead by local Maui dive shop B&B Scuba dove on the wreck of an aircraft that had previously only been known by some of Maui’s local fisherman. It turned out that the aircraft they dove on was a Curtis SB2C-1C Helldiver. The last of the WWII dive bombers.
The plane sat on the bottom of the ocean, on a flat sandy bottom, for 66 years. She lay there collecting only corals and becoming a hostess to a myriad of life. From the giant Yellow Margin Eel that lives in the cockpit to the Ulua that roam under her wings, she has become a haven for life under the sea. Truly, a thing of beauty.
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