Technical Instructor Chris Law bought a group of Australian rebreather and doubles divers with him for a 12 night stay in January 2011.Their mission was to dive the deeper wrecks here in the lagoon, along with their favourite shallower sites for the afternoon dives. After visiting Truk for a brief familiarisation trip in July 2010 Chris decided to bring his group to Truk Lagoon Dive Center as he knew we could support them with the type of diving they wanted to do.
The group used Helium on their deepest dives (max depth recorded was 113m on the outer reef wall/64m on the wrecks), and their dive times averaged 120 minutes.
After preparing their gear each morning they had a leisurely breakfast before heading out for their deeper dive of the day. As well as diving all of the wrecks at the Fourth fleet anchorage they also dived the Oite which they described as 'awesome'.
Following a relaxed lunch on the patio the group headed out again for a shallower afternoon dive, where they enjoyed the soft corals and schools of fish and significantly less deco time!
Evenings were spent enjoying a beer or two on the patio, or shooting pool up in the Hard Wreck Cafe. On their last night they enjoyed a BBQ feast with Rob in charge of the grill!
And it wasn't all about diving on wrecks. On a calm day they took a trip to the outreef where they were surrounded by silvertip and grey reef sharks. On another day they snorkelled with 5 mantas that were feeding inside the lagoon. Grey reef sharks, eagle rays, schools of big eyed jacks and barracudas were regularly seen throughout their stay.
Congratulations to Rebecca for achieving her TDI Adv Nitrox/Deco Procedures and Normoxic Trimix certifications during the trip.
Thanks to Dave Hurst for letting us use some of his amazing photos, and we look forward to welcoming the group back in December 2011!
Sites dived:
Heian Maru, Hoki Maru, Kansho Maru, Seiko Maru, Unkai Maru, Amagisan Mau, Sankisan Maru, Shotan Maru, Fujikawa Maru, Aikoku Maru, Yamagiri Maru, Oite, Shinkoku, Outreef, Gosei Maru, San Francisco, Nippo Maru, Nagano Maru, I-169 Submarine, Hokuyo Maru, Shark Dive
