Diving Truk Lagoon - page 18
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<br>Big torpedo hole in the hull. I strangely like the composition of this image.
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Big torpedo hole in the hull. I strangely like the composition of this image. 		3/4/2023
3/4/2023 		3/4/2023<br>More dive computer. 108 feet deep, 11 minutes into the dive, 1972 psi left (of about 2900) and a planned deep stop at 54 feet for a minute.
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More dive computer. 108 feet deep, 11 minutes into the dive, 1972 psi left (of about 2900) and a planned deep stop at 54 feet for a minute.
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3/4/2023 		3/4/2023<br>A Japanese Long Lance torpedo.
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A Japanese Long Lance torpedo.