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Truk Lagoon: Setting the scene

Truk Lagoon is simply the best place to see shipwrecks anywhere in the world. The wrecks are virtually intact and the Lagoon’s water is gin clear.

Truk Lagoon is a vast body of water fifty miles long by thirty miles wide, and it is stuffed full of wrecked ships and planes.

Truk Lagoon.

Truk Lagoon.
Truk Lagoon.

Truk Lagoon.

Here you can swim through holds full of Zero fighters, or explore a ships bridge complete with ships helm, compass and telegraphs. Superlatives are meaningless. Truk is the Diver’s Mecca.

This book by Klaus Linderman is the definitive book on Truk. I used it whilst I was out there diving, and have found it invaluable as and aid to jogging my memory of those great days.

If you want to get a copy, it is published by Pacific Press Publications. ISBN:981-00-2968-3. It’s out of print, but you can find it secondhand on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk

Truk Lagoon Dive Trip Report:

  • Truk Lagoon: Setting The Scene
  • Truk Lagoon: The Reason
  • Fujikawa Maru
  • Betty Bomber
  • Nippon Maru
  • Rio De Janeiro
  • Hoki Maru
  • Fumazuki
  • Kimio Aisak
  • Truk Aggressor
  • U.S.S. Arizona

Truk Lagoon, World Wrecks

Comments

  1. ricky may says

    September 16, 2010 at 12:53 am

    neil hanson I worked with a brian hanson in columbus ohio cmh airport I think he was related to neil as he was a ramp agent I worked as a aircraft technician last time I went through columbus he was still there have not talked to him in years

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