Bikini Atoll Diving: Health and Safety.

[oceancrest67]

I am scheduled to go dive the wrecks in Bikini Atoll August 2006. I am interested in advice and feedback from experienced members who have already dived Bikini. I am looking for health and safety assessments. I have contacted the Bikini operation via e-mail and they have been quite helpful in providing me with information on radiological survey of the wrecks. They and others claim the environment to be rather benign on Bikini Atoll, and the threat of "background radiation" is far greater in many US urban areas etc. Any information would be helpful. Thank you.

 

[1_T_Submariner]

Might want to wrap yourself in Aluminum foil and where a foil hat for protection.... Ok Just kidding...Looks like a great place to dive (I just checked the web sites)

 

[Doc]

Might want to wrap yourself in Aluminum foil and where a foil hat for protection....

Exactly. Go, or don't go. You decide. Is something you learn here going to sway you? If so, prepare thee for wild ride- the advice here is all over the highway.

Ahh, maybe you were awaiting a reference to advice from the IAEC or AEC or... ?

Nothing grown on the islands is consumed. Everything is imported.

Jeez, man- I would be more worried about the extreme depth profiles. That- and the mutated underwater dwelling CHUD people.

 

[oceancrest67]

Good laughs. Tin foil? I was thinking about a special lead neoprene dive suit to protect myself from the mutated ocean sharks.

Yes...advice on this board is all over the map.

I was only curios of other divers who had the opportunity to dive Bikini. It will be a great trip and I am prepping myself.

 

[CHUD]

Jeez, man- I would be more worried about the extreme depth profiles. That- and the mutated underwater dwelling CHUD people.

Hey! Lay off my peoples, dood!

 

[Dectek]

to you I now know what it feels like to expel Dr. Pepper through the nose! LMAO

Jeez, man- I would be more worried about the extreme depth profiles. That- and the mutated underwater dwelling CHUD people.

 

[Tavi]

Have you looked on the Website?

Lots of info there.

 

[oceancrest67]

Yes, I have read the entire web-site. I am only interested in divers that have actually been there and can relate their experiences.

 

[mikerault]

All of the short lived highly active stuf has gone through 7 decay periods so it is essentially gone. The long lived stuff is mostly alpha and beta particle emmitting so as long as you stay about 2-3 centimeters away in water no problems. Just be careful of consuming anything that may have been grown locally as Sr/Yt 90 is probably still around. Oh...and don't drink the water!

What I am saying is, don't worry, take normal dive precautions and precautions about food and water like you would in any tropical location and you will be fine.

Mike Ault
Ex-Nuclear Chemist Submariner

(P.S. Just watch out for giant lizards Gadziwa!)

 

[Doc]

Yes, I have read the entire web-site. I am only interested in divers that have actually been there and can relate their experiences.

Everone that has been there at the same time as I are still alive. Lets' see, that would be a total of 7 people over two 1 week long trips. I don't know about any other people who were there those weeks, or any of the vast number that have been there since it opened to vacation divers (1989?).

Maybe we were just lucky.

Watch your depth and time Ocean, your profile shows you are a 'stimulus seeker/risk taker'- as are the most of us.

The first female civilian visitor to Bikini was Mary (The (new) Turtle Lady of South Padre Island, Texas). Stop by Sea Turtle Rescue Inc. and ask her all about it. She does have that certain 'glow' about her! :14: