In 1943, a US Corsair ditched off the Solomon Islands; more than 80 years later, it sits upright 174 feet underwater as a living reef

Earlier this year, Kirstin Meyer-Kaiser, a marine biologist, along with her team from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, went diving on something unusual: World War Two wrecks scattered across the Pacific seafloor. The research sites included Palau and the Solomon Islands, where decades-old wrecks have become home to coral communities. One such interesting wreck is that of a fighter plane belonging to the US, which was lost more than 80 years ago in the Solomon Islands.

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