USAT Liberty Shipwreck
Torpedoed WWII cargo wreck, shaken into the sea by a volcanic eruption and reborn as a coral reef.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the USAT Liberty Shipwreck in Bali follows the American cargo ship torpedoed by a Japanese submarine on January 11, 1942, and the failed tow attempt that forced her crew to run her aground at Tulamben with no lives lost. It traces the twenty-one years she sat rusting and stripped on that beach, and the 1963 eruption of Mount Agung, the same disaster that killed roughly eleven hundred islanders elsewhere on the island. Best explored slowly along the hull, where coral now grows thick over the old deck.
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