Diving Truk Lagoon - page 4
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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3/1/2023<br>That is a Japanese periscope - in fact it is an attach periscope which is smaller to leave less wake. This shipwreck was a submarine tender with spare parts.
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That is a Japanese periscope - in fact it is an attach periscope which is smaller to leave less wake. This shipwreck was a submarine tender with spare parts. 		3/1/2023<br>All the divemasters carried spare air tanks for long decompression stops if someone ran short. Even the shallow dives here are fairly deep. You can expect to hit 90 foot or deeper.
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All the divemasters carried spare air tanks for long decompression stops if someone ran short. Even the shallow dives here are fairly deep. You can expect to hit 90 foot or deeper. 		3/1/2023
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