Diving Truk Lagoon - page 47
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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3/9/2023 		3/9/2023<br>Interesting fact. You see Ryan F ahead of me, closely following the divemaster on these dives. Ryan did not have a light, nor did he have a dive computer on any of these dives. He was anticipating renting them in Truk, but there were none to rent.
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Interesting fact. You see Ryan F ahead of me, closely following the divemaster on these dives. Ryan did not have a light, nor did he have a dive computer on any of these dives. He was anticipating renting them in Truk, but there were none to rent. 		3/9/2023
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3/9/2023<br>The famous bicycle is easier to recognize in this shot.
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The famous bicycle is easier to recognize in this shot. 		3/9/2023<br>Safety stop at the end of every dive.
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Safety stop at the end of every dive. 		3/9/2023 - Dive 13 - Betty Bomber<br>On this dive we went to the Betty Bomber. (Betty is the US nickname for that aircraft type, a carrier-based bomber.) When this one crashed, the engines ripped loose and carried on some distance in front of the rest of the plane. This is one engine.
3/9/2023 - Dive 13 - Betty Bomber
On this dive we went to the Betty Bomber. (Betty is the US nickname for that aircraft type, a carrier-based bomber.) When this one crashed, the engines ripped loose and carried on some distance in front of the rest of the plane. This is one engine.