
The new photos - taken by Canadian photographer Christopher Hamilton, from Windsor, Nova Scotia - show tourists exploring the ruins after the site has become a popular underwater stop for visitors to Vanuatu.

'The official Navy record of Operation Roll-Up maintains that "items were to be retained to the extent of their useful life'',' the magazine reported. Ni-Vanuatu witnessing the destruction of wealth their island would never see again, at least in their lifetimes, thought the Americans had gone mad.Ĭabinet Magazine says military records account for the underwater dumping of some ammunition but nothing on the scale of what happened at Million Dollar Point. The Seabees built a ramp running into the sea and every day Americans drove trucks, jeeps, ambulances, bulldozers, and tractors into the channel, locking the wheels and jumping free at the last second,' Clarke wrote. Tourists get a close up look of an abandoned wreck at Million Dollar PointĬlarke described the scene as the US dumped the goods in front of locals.
