The Big Bang !

[walsh2509]

http://www.seawolfproductions.com/Shipwreck%20Museum/Truk%20Lagoon/Aikoku%20Maru/aikoku_peacetime.jpg

Aikoku Maru in wartime "dazzle" camouflage.

http://www.seawolfproductions.com/Shipwreck%20Museum/Truk%20Lagoon/Aikoku%20Maru/aikoku_dazzle.jpg

Anyone making a bigger Bang mod ???

There she goes ..
http://www.seawolfproductions.com/Shipwreck%20Museum/Truk%20Lagoon/Aikoku%20Maru/aikoku_explodes%20.jpg
http://www.seawolfproductions.com/Shipwreck%20Museum/Truk%20Lagoon/Aikoku%20Maru/zero_attack%20.jpg

The Aikoku Maru also functioned as a submarine tender, cargo, and troop transport ship. On the day of the attack, she was carrying various high explosives in her forward holds including ammunition, aerial bombs, mines and her own shells. It is believed a US Avenger attacked the ship and dropped a bomb in the forward hold. The resulting explosion was so violent it destroyed the aircraft and blew the entire forward part of the ship off from the bridge forward. The force explosion was so tremendous it set fires onshore and blew a depression in the lagoon bottom the stern settled into, making it the deepest wreck in the lagoon.

[Jace11]

Wow, big bang...

I agree, I don't like the large explosion effects much. Torpedo hits too, they should be more spectacular with more water, smoke, debris and a nice crunch and thwack sound effect and also some compression wave effect on the water... that would be sweet..

[Deep6]

did a Google search and found this link

http://www.seawolfproductions.com/Shipwreck%20Museum/Truk%20Lagoon/Aikoku%20Maru/aikoku_maruweb.htm

If the sketch at the bottom of the page is accurate, that Avenger did a Hell of a job on that ship.

Here is another link with another explanation for the destruction:

http://members.aol.com/HBBolten/Aikoku.htm

"The plane was hit by antiaircraft fire from the ship and crashed into the first hold in front of the bridge, where it exploded. Seconds later, there was a giant explosion, in which the Aikoku Maru vanished. There was an intensive flash, followed by a shockwave and an explosion cloud, that looked like from an atomic detonation."