Sprigs of table coral have become established on the wreckage, some now a respectable size. |
The sailors and coxswain running the whaleboat pushed off again to help the others towing away the wreckage. |
Once he declared the aircraft safe, I completed a final reconnoitre of the site to 50m out from the wreckage. |
They're still combing through the wreckage now, trying to figure out what exactly happened. |
In 1918 when the ship Makambo ran aground, hundreds of rats rode onto the beach with the wreckage. |
Although the site is not a war grave, the wreckage was returned to the tarn after identification. |