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25/04/2008: "SOLOMON ISLANDS ...... Japanese battle shipwreck site"
Battle shipwreck site near Honiara. Probably one worked-over by "Our Wal" as it would be hard to miss. One wreck finding tactic Wally Gibbins used was to search for oil leaks from sunken naval ships.
When Wal said he could "smell a shipwreck" he was only half-kidding. He could smell the oil in the otherwise clean ocean air. An underwater explosion would also loosen up oil and reveal other wrecks nearby.
A researched site with much historical info on SI war shipwrecks, it often spells Wally Gibbins surname as Gibbons (sic).
