MAJURO, Marshall Islands--A miniature replica of a Japanese tuna fishing boat whose crew encountered fallout from a U.S. thermonuclear test at Bikini Atoll in 1954 now takes pride of place in the ...
Just 80 miles west of its destination lay the Bikini Atoll ... the Lucky Dragon No. 5 set off fishing in the Midway Sea, near the Midway Atoll. But soon after, the boat altered its course south ...
The 23 crew members of the Daigo Fukuryu Maru (Lucky Dragon No. 5), a tuna fishing boat based in Yaizu, Shizuoka Prefecture, were operating in Pacific waters near Bikini Atoll on March 1 ...