Truk Odyssey
Truk Odyssey
17-Dec-2007 14:46
Pretty amazing, after a looong wait I'm finally in
the Mekka of wreck diving.
After the paperwork is sorted, I'm pointed to my cabin. I meet my new room mate Kevin (my future male-model you can see in many of the pictures). He's been diving with Odyssey already for a week and gives me the heads up. I want to set my gear up before I crash. Tomorrow at 08.00 I'm be jumping in for the first wreck. I can't wait!
The whole week pretty much flies by. Long before I came here, I decided to Guerilla dive the whole week, ie. under no circumstances will I miss a dive
Picture of me by Larry Thompson
Our deepest dive was San Francisco Maru with average depth around 50m, deepest air dive I've ever done, decompression was done with 50%. Unfortunately Odyssey does not supply Helium or promote it's use. My understanding after speaking to many different people about it is that the logistics of it are too complicated. I wonder how Truk Stop and Blue Lagoon manage to do it? Anyway most of the wrecks we dove are 'borderline' nitrox dives in around 30m average depths.
My male model Kevin and the destroyer Fumitzuki
One real warship, destroyer Fumitzuki, quite a few Maru's and the Betty Bomber, pretty good score for a weeks diving. In retroperspective, one should spend at least two weeks here, perhaps a week on liveaboard and then a week with land based deeper diving or something. One week did feel a bit short, though I did see a lot. Don't tell anyone, but I think I took around 1000 pictures during the week, perhaps 400 are left ... tells something about my skills as a photographer, 600 to waste. Deleted.
Deep inside Yamagiri Maru
I think I became a Truk-head on my first visit. I just have to come back, though I want to do the deeper wrecks and hopefully get helium from somewhere to do it as well. I'll have to turn in my next holiday application at home (2010, pliis). Read More...
After the paperwork is sorted, I'm pointed to my cabin. I meet my new room mate Kevin (my future male-model you can see in many of the pictures). He's been diving with Odyssey already for a week and gives me the heads up. I want to set my gear up before I crash. Tomorrow at 08.00 I'm be jumping in for the first wreck. I can't wait!
The whole week pretty much flies by. Long before I came here, I decided to Guerilla dive the whole week, ie. under no circumstances will I miss a dive
Picture of me by Larry Thompson
Our deepest dive was San Francisco Maru with average depth around 50m, deepest air dive I've ever done, decompression was done with 50%. Unfortunately Odyssey does not supply Helium or promote it's use. My understanding after speaking to many different people about it is that the logistics of it are too complicated. I wonder how Truk Stop and Blue Lagoon manage to do it? Anyway most of the wrecks we dove are 'borderline' nitrox dives in around 30m average depths.
My male model Kevin and the destroyer Fumitzuki
One real warship, destroyer Fumitzuki, quite a few Maru's and the Betty Bomber, pretty good score for a weeks diving. In retroperspective, one should spend at least two weeks here, perhaps a week on liveaboard and then a week with land based deeper diving or something. One week did feel a bit short, though I did see a lot. Don't tell anyone, but I think I took around 1000 pictures during the week, perhaps 400 are left ... tells something about my skills as a photographer, 600 to waste. Deleted.
Deep inside Yamagiri Maru
I think I became a Truk-head on my first visit. I just have to come back, though I want to do the deeper wrecks and hopefully get helium from somewhere to do it as well. I'll have to turn in my next holiday application at home (2010, pliis). Read More...
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