October's issue of X-Ray Magazine, an international scuba diving publication, featured a photograph of a dental chair submerged on the wreck of the USS Saratoga.

According to X-Ray Magazine, the USS Saratoga was first commissioned in 1925 and was a 40,000-ton, 268-metre long aircraft carrier touring the Pacific, Nicaragua, San Diego, Hawaii, Guadalcanal and the Marshall Islands. After World War II she was decommissioned and sank as a result of nuclear testing at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean.

The diver writing in X-Ray Magazine, Pete Mesley, reports: 'One of the dives that totally blew my mind was the dentist's surgery and sick bay. [...] Three dentist chairs sat in the room, completely kitted out with drills, rinse bowls, even head phones for the patients. Perfectly preserved. Everything was covered in the finest red rusty silt, probably highly radioactive if you dug deep enough into it.'

Photo courtesy of Andrew Pitkin.