Diving Truk Lagoon - page 27
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.
3/6/2023<br>Ship stuff
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Ship stuff 		3/6/2023<br>More ship stuff.
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More ship stuff. 		3/6/2023<br>This is one of the few shots I took looking up. You can tell by the bubbles.
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This is one of the few shots I took looking up. You can tell by the bubbles.
3/6/2023<br>Follow the diver. Backstory here. The exit was visible from where Ryan is, and I could see the divemaster from there. But I didn't think I could squeeze though, and I wanted to backtrack a bit. But Ryan didn't see how to backtrack so took the lead here. I followed, carefully fitting my camera rig through first.
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Follow the diver. Backstory here. The exit was visible from where Ryan is, and I could see the divemaster from there. But I didn't think I could squeeze though, and I wanted to backtrack a bit. But Ryan didn't see how to backtrack so took the lead here. I followed, carefully fitting my camera rig through first. 		3/6/2023<br>And there is the final exit - to freedom! This was the first extensive wreck penetration for either Ryan or me. We were both out of our comfort zone, but adapted.
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And there is the final exit - to freedom! This was the first extensive wreck penetration for either Ryan or me. We were both out of our comfort zone, but adapted. 		3/6/2023<br>Ryan and I were happy to be out again!
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Ryan and I were happy to be out again!