Diving Truk Lagoon - page 30
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.
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3/6/2023 		3/6/2023<br>Backstory: OK, right about here I got stuck for bit in some rails I tried to go under instead of around. There is Fred disappearing in the distance. By the time I free myself, I can't see him.
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Backstory: OK, right about here I got stuck for bit in some rails I tried to go under instead of around. There is Fred disappearing in the distance. By the time I free myself, I can't see him. 		3/6/2023<br>Now at this point I can't see where they went, and I'm following a trail of silt hoping to catch up. I'm about 80 feet deep.
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Now at this point I can't see where they went, and I'm following a trail of silt hoping to catch up. I'm about 80 feet deep.
3/6/2023<br>I went along down the corridor and came to this. At this point I'm pretty sure they went down there, but I wasn't about to go poking around looking! I knew how to backtrack, so I turned around and went back to the point I got stuck coming in.
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I went along down the corridor and came to this. At this point I'm pretty sure they went down there, but I wasn't about to go poking around looking! I knew how to backtrack, so I turned around and went back to the point I got stuck coming in. 		3/6/2023<br>And as I returned to the scene of a stuck-under-railing incident, I see the divemaster coming up out of a hole in front. Turns out they had gone down the corridor, then backtracked directly underneath me, coming up in about the same spot. I waited until they passed by and joined back on to the end. Like nothing happened.
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And as I returned to the scene of a stuck-under-railing incident, I see the divemaster coming up out of a hole in front. Turns out they had gone down the corridor, then backtracked directly underneath me, coming up in about the same spot. I waited until they passed by and joined back on to the end. Like nothing happened. 		3/6/2023
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