There’s something about a shipwreck that seems frozen in time. Photographer Guntaphat Pokasasipun’s underwater pictures of the sunken HTMS Chang have a beautifully eerie quality that makes it seem ageless.
He credits the wreck with being one of the largest, most complete dive sites in Thailand.
“It sank on November 22, 2012, and quickly turned into a great artificial reef, thriving with marine life; from soft coral to the largest fish on the planet, a whale shark,” the 32-year-old Thai divemaster told The Epoch Times. “I try to take shots for every angle of it.”
(Courtesy of Guntaphat Pokasasipun)
Intriguingly, long before it became an underwater photographer’s dream, the HTMS Chang was a U.S. Navy ship during World War II and in the Korean War. Originally named LST-898, it first set sail from Florida in 1944 to begin wartime missions near Japan, the Philippines, and Korea….