Diving Truk Lagoon - page 62
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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3/11/2023 		3/11/2023<br>A view from a beach on a $50 'tour' of the island. Glad I went as I at least saw something, but wouldn't do it twice.
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A view from a beach on a $50 'tour' of the island. Glad I went as I at least saw something, but wouldn't do it twice. 		3/11/2023<br>A couple of ferries wait in the harbor.
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A couple of ferries wait in the harbor.
3/11/2023<br>The stately branch office of the Bank of Guam.
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The stately branch office of the Bank of Guam. 		3/11/2023<br>Water tanks (?) in the harbor. Or fuel tanks.
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Water tanks (?) in the harbor. Or fuel tanks. 		3/11/2023<br>On the island tour, we stopped at small park called Rachel's Beach, paid $3 each, and saw a small pool with several turtles and two sharks. It was a nice place to visit.
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On the island tour, we stopped at small park called Rachel's Beach, paid $3 each, and saw a small pool with several turtles and two sharks. It was a nice place to visit.