The dive will be the deepest wreck dive conducted by a scuba diver and Lalumiere will be breaking hos own record of 193m he made while diving to the USS Cooper, also resting in Olmoc Bay, on May 29, 2005.

The Shimakase was the fastest destroyer built by the Japanese and capable of reaching a speed of 40 knots. 127 meters long, armed with six five inch cannons and 28 caliber 60 machine guns and 15 torpedoes she was a formidable opponent. She was sunk on Now 11, 1944 with an unconfirmed complement of 267 officers and crew.

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Shimakaze was a one-off super-destroyer built for the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. A virtual cruiser, she was armed with six 127mm dual purpose guns and conventional anti-aircraft and anti-submarine weaponry. More importantly, she was also armed with 15 torpedo tubes each capable of firing the deadly 24-inch Long Lance torpedo. The ship was a testbed for an enormously powerful high-temperature, high-pressure steam engine that was able to develop nearly 80,000 shaft horsepower. This made her one of the fastest destroyers in the world: her designed speed was 39 knots, but on trials she made 40.9 knots. Ordered in 1939 under the Fourth Naval Replacement Programme (the Maru Yon programme), Shimakaze was laid down in Maizuru naval dockyard in August 1941 and completed on 10 May 1943. She saw action in the evacuation of Kiska in July 1943 and was present in 1944 at the Battle of the Philippine Sea. While flagship of Destroyer Squadron 2, she was sunk by American aircraft on 8 November 1944 during the Battle of Ormoc Bay. Japan had intended to lay down sixteen similar destroyers, with long term plans for a total of 32 to equip 4 destroyer squadrons, but a lack of industrial capacity prevented them from being realized.

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