Kasi Maru
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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”.
Dive Munda regularly runs dives to the Kasi Maru.
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