Diving Truk Lagoon - page 1
In March of 2023 I joined a couple of dozen others on a Backscatter-sponsored 10-day trip to legendary Truk Lagoon. This location is considered the top wreck diving location in the world with 50 sunken Japanese ships and several airplanes sitting on the bottom. Operation Hailstone in February 1944 sunk all of them in a period of about 2 days. These wrecks were undisturbed until the 1960's when Jacques Cousteau discovered them. Several of the wreck sites are extremely popular with the wreck diving community. I was diving a single 80 cubic foot tank and could not do the deepest dives. Nevertheless, I still followed the divemaster through several wrecks on dives that were a bit scary and left me with rust stains all over as I had to pull myself past numerous rusty obstacles. Here are the images, in the order I took them.
3/1/2023<br>This is a beach in Guam. I stopped here on the way to Truk and scattered some of Connie's ashes here.
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This is a beach in Guam. I stopped here on the way to Truk and scattered some of Connie's ashes here. 		3/1/2023<br>Guam beach
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Guam beach 		3/1/2023<br>Guam beach
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Guam beach
3/1/2023<br>This is in the lobby of the Blue Lagoon Resort (AKA BLR) in Truk. These are the main shipwrecks you dive in Truk.
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This is in the lobby of the Blue Lagoon Resort (AKA BLR) in Truk. These are the main shipwrecks you dive in Truk. 		3/1/2023
3/1/2023 		3/1/2023 - Dive 1 - Fujikawa Maru<br>While I never dove any actual reefs in Truk, some of the shipwrecks had extensive coral and anemones growing on them.
3/1/2023 - Dive 1 - Fujikawa Maru
While I never dove any actual reefs in Truk, some of the shipwrecks had extensive coral and anemones growing on them.