Diving Truk Lagoon - page 2
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>A case of 'with flash' ...
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A case of 'with flash' ... 		3/1/2023<br>... and 'without flash'. At depth the water absorbs red light from the sun, and many bright red objects appear brown without lights.
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... and 'without flash'. At depth the water absorbs red light from the sun, and many bright red objects appear brown without lights. 		3/1/2023<br>And here is a case of color, or...
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And here is a case of color, or...
3/1/2023<br>... or black and white. Many of the images in this collection are shown in black and white when the water was murky, or the colors were mostly gone anyway. B&W can make things much clearer when there is a lot of silt in the water.
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... or black and white. Many of the images in this collection are shown in black and white when the water was murky, or the colors were mostly gone anyway. B&W can make things much clearer when there is a lot of silt in the water. 		3/1/2023<br>Memorials
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Memorials 		3/1/2023 - Dive 2 - Heian Maru<br><br>Traffic passing by
3/1/2023 - Dive 2 - Heian Maru

Traffic passing by