Diving Truk Lagoon - page 17
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.
3/4/2023 - Dive 6 - Heian Maru
3/4/2023 - Dive 6 - Heian Maru 		3/4/2023
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3/4/2023<br>That is the warhead of a Japanese Long Lance torpedo
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That is the warhead of a Japanese Long Lance torpedo 		3/4/2023<br>Awkward shot of my dive computer. It says 88 feet deep, 7 minutes into the dive, 2234 psi of air left (started with about 2900), and I have a planned deep stop at 44 feet for a minute.
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Awkward shot of my dive computer. It says 88 feet deep, 7 minutes into the dive, 2234 psi of air left (started with about 2900), and I have a planned deep stop at 44 feet for a minute. 		3/4/2023<br>This is an attempt to show some of the damage that sunk this ship. I believe this is from a torpedo near the bow.
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This is an attempt to show some of the damage that sunk this ship. I believe this is from a torpedo near the bow.