Fish swim near sunken U.S. WWII ship's gun turret

Fish swim near sunken U.S. WWII ship's gun turret

Photo taken on Aug. 17, 2015, shows a school of fish swimming around a coral- and barnacle-covered gun turret from the U.S. minesweeper Emmons, which was sunk off Kouri Island in Nakijin, Okinawa Prefecture, southwestern Japan, during World War II. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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