Has anyone visited / dived Chuuk Lagoon
Discussion
My wife and I dived Chuk (Truk) back in 2006.
This lagoon has probably the best wreck diving in the world with over 40 Japanese ships and planes in sport diving depths. Even more wrecks are available to tech divers who are now well catered for. You have a choice of staying on land (Blue Lagoon in our case) or on a livaboard. In essence the livaboards only advantage is the ability to get in more dives per day than the shore based options as all the wrecks are reasonably close to the main island. However the depth of many of the wrecks means many open circuit divers can only fit in two dives a day anyway, especially if long deco is required.
The wrecks sit in clear warm tropical water and have had their superstructures turned into stunning miniature coral reefs teeming with fish life including large grey reef and silky sharks on occasion. Many of the wrecks offer the ability to get inside to view storage holds containing aircraft parts, navel gun shells, armored bulldozers, etc with several wrecks having small battle tanks strapped to their decking.
My diving now concentrates on video of tropical marine life rather than wrecks but I would encourage any diver to visit Chuk as it uniquely offers both wreck and (artificial) reef diving in one albeit expensive package.
If you are going that distance I would strongly suggest you find the time (and money) to include some further big fish diving in nearby Palau, Yap or Kosrae.
The most memorable manta dive I have ever had was in German Channel, Palau with over 50 mantas for over an hour! Here is a link to the video I shot that evening as the sun started to sank over the horizon.
https://vimeo.com/17156990
This lagoon has probably the best wreck diving in the world with over 40 Japanese ships and planes in sport diving depths. Even more wrecks are available to tech divers who are now well catered for. You have a choice of staying on land (Blue Lagoon in our case) or on a livaboard. In essence the livaboards only advantage is the ability to get in more dives per day than the shore based options as all the wrecks are reasonably close to the main island. However the depth of many of the wrecks means many open circuit divers can only fit in two dives a day anyway, especially if long deco is required.
The wrecks sit in clear warm tropical water and have had their superstructures turned into stunning miniature coral reefs teeming with fish life including large grey reef and silky sharks on occasion. Many of the wrecks offer the ability to get inside to view storage holds containing aircraft parts, navel gun shells, armored bulldozers, etc with several wrecks having small battle tanks strapped to their decking.
My diving now concentrates on video of tropical marine life rather than wrecks but I would encourage any diver to visit Chuk as it uniquely offers both wreck and (artificial) reef diving in one albeit expensive package.
If you are going that distance I would strongly suggest you find the time (and money) to include some further big fish diving in nearby Palau, Yap or Kosrae.
The most memorable manta dive I have ever had was in German Channel, Palau with over 50 mantas for over an hour! Here is a link to the video I shot that evening as the sun started to sank over the horizon.
https://vimeo.com/17156990
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