Chuuk / Truk Lagoon Wreck Diving
Liveaboard
Micronesia
Expedition
Fleets’ newest destination is awesome Chuuk. Formerly known as Truk
Lagoon, this 40 mile diameter lagoon is the final resting place of over 180,000
tons of ships, planes tanks and other war material that met its’ untimely
end on the 17th and 18th of February, 1944. Dubbed “Operation Hailstone”
, one of the most devastating aerial attacks in history sank 60 assorted Japanese
vessels and 250 planes.
The 65 years that have passed since that fateful day have transformed these
relics into artificial reefs supporting both hard and soft corals- a living
museum. Ship-holds still contain tanks, planes and other wartime armaments.
Often overlooked because
of the wealth of wreck dive sites are the channels and the outer barrier reefs
of the atoll where vertiginous walls remain the playground for rays, sharks
and other pelagics.
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