Diving the Kaidai Type 6A submarine IJN I-169 - Truk Lagoon

The large Imperial Japanese Navy submarine I-169 was present in Truk Lagoon on 4 April 1944 loading stores when an alarm was issued of a U.S. air raid. The submarine went to crash dive - but all the deck hatches had not been closed. Her control room flooded and she sank to the bottom of the lagoon where she lies today in 35 metres of water.

[@axesspeaklouderthanwords8077]

Thanx my friend for posting this thoroughly enjoyed your descriptions and exploring the wreck

[@reloadncharge9907]

Good video.....thanks....I wrote an article in Wreck Diving Magazine about this wreck and how I came about wanting to dive her.....

[@captaintimbailes7971]

You do great war wreck video's! So why aren't you doing "voice narrations"? I've watched several of your video's, so far everyone has the same way. You are clearly taking the time to edit these, so go back and do it again with voice narrations and make you stuff the best it can be. One last thing, you guys went into the sub, so why didn't you video any of that? Thanks

[@rodmacdonald6396]

Hi Tim - I started out doing these, not for clicks or some narcissistic reason, but basically because I have all this footage of historic 20th century shipwrecks, which I thought would be good for posterity to have in the public domain.
Over my time diving I have seen many large wrecks totally collapse. I wish for example I'd had a video in the 1980's in Scapa Flow - the German High Seas Fleet cruisers there are pale shadows of what they were. So I'm not out to make some shiny video that looks good, someone else wanted music - that would just wreck it for me. I'm just getting the largely raw footage out there as a marker in time in the life of these wrecks. They will be vastly different in 20 years time - so with what I'm doing, the armchair divers and historians then will have a benchmark. Were th masts still up, were the kingposts still up, was that gun still in position?? All these things change over the years.
I have already done one with a bit of narration, Hanagawa Maru - but editing take a ton of time and given the raison d'être for the videos, I think I will just leave as is. You can enjoy the Seelonce of the Depths, you're a Captain - you'll get it!
Re the sub - I'd didn't go inside it so no video!
All the best.

[@timbailes8091]

@@rodmacdonald6396 Hi Rob, what you said about "be good for posterity in the public domain" is exactly why I said what I did. I think you have created an amazing historical documentation with what you have done. You just need to polish it up a little. Years from now people will watch those videos and wish you had been more descriptive. Especially when the ship are all but a pile of iron. Thank you for the reply. Tim