In each location, we faced some challenges, including large fluctuations in tidal range and longshore current, sometimes helping and other times hindering our search. Walking the area just inshore of the invasion beaches to locate the remains of Japanese defensive positions that raked the incoming assault waves to aid in interpreting the areas of offshore losses. walking and wading the shallow lagoon from the reef to the shore,.a towed swimmer survey of the reef where a boat could not safely navigate,.Outside and near the fringing reef using a magnetometer and side scan, The goals of this project were to locate the scattered material remains of Peleliu’s submerged battlefield, to photogrammetrically record those remains, and to survey the reef to determine if the scars from the UDT mission to blow access ramps into the lagoon were still visible after 73 years.īecause of the environmental characteristics of the invasion beach (deep water quickly rising to a breaking reef and an average of 550 yards of very shallow rocky lagoon leading to a thin sandy beach underlain with broken limestone), we broke the search into four zones: Carrell, Ph.D., Chief Scientist and Principal Investigator, Ships of Exploration and Discovery Research Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibilityīy Toni L.
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