Category: Anacapa
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Anacapa’s Airplane Wreck: TBF Avenger
It’s 1944: two Navy bombers collide midair while participating in a training exercise over Anacapa Island. One goes down on the back side of the island and is never found. The other hits the ocean on the front side of middle Anacapa and sinks to the bottom. Between the two planes, three crewmen are killed.…
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Photo of the Week: Grumman TBF Avenger Airplane Wreck
Diving the TBF Avenger is just plain cool. Was that bad? That was bad.