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October 16th 2014

Published: November 11th 2014

Where do I begin? Wow!!! I like to think of myself as well travelled-ish but Truk Lagoon, or Chuuk Lagoon as it is now known, blew me away. For those of you that don’t already know, Truk Lagoon was the site of Japan’s naval fleet in the pacific during WWII. In February 1944, as part of Operation Hailstone, Japan’s fleet were pretty much wiped out in a series of attacks which resulted i... Read Full Entry

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Chris

Chris and Nikki

Welcome to our blog, we are Chris & Nikki and we are travel addicts!!! Chris is a born & bred Londoner (and a 'real' Cockney). Nikki is originally from Chester Le-Street in Durham but has been 'down south' since she started university. We (try to) visit four places a year and if possible try to make it a different continent each time. We love life experiences, photography and travel and if we're lucky we combine them all in one trip. Travelblog is pretty much our diary of places visited & a diary of our relationship, My present to say 'congratulations' for finishing universit... full info

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11th November 2014

denidax
Deni, Dax and Ella

wow indeed!
It must be weird to swim through all those personal objects and, specially the bones! Great photos and awesome experience, I remember you saying in the diving forum that this was high on your bucket list.

11th November 2014

Chris and Nikki
Chris

The first skull I saw shocked me but the personal objects weren't too weird to see. What was weird was wandering through very distinct corridors, up & down stairs & not walking. Swimming through makes you feel like you're flying through the ships.

11th November 2014

kangaroojack
The Ts

What a Blog
Awesome Blog, Can I ask where all the light was coming from in the wheelhouse of the Nippo Maru, the pictures are amazing.

12th November 2014

Chris and Nikki
Chris

The light was natural light from above. From memory that wreck was upright & I'm not sure of the depth of the wheelhouse but could have been fairly shallow. Some wrecks are literally sticking out of the water there.

11th November 2014

D MJ Binkley
Dave and Merry Jo Binkley

That title will get attention
Diving the dream.......fantastic. Diving to history...eerie. I'm sure Nikki was hoping one of the thumps on the head would knock some sense into you....oh, just kidding. :) Great ghost stories. Travel on and make the dreams come true.

11th November 2014

D MJ Binkley
Dave and Merry Jo Binkley

Treasures
Really great photos

11th November 2014

Maisondubonheur
Pierre-Alexandre

What an adventure!
Years ago Chuuk was not on my list...and now that I've done few wrecks, I'm strating to feel I want to do it! Amazing blog you have there...and glad to see you didn't have only rain.

11th November 2014

littlewing
Cindy

WOW!
...........and am now booking a LOB to Truuk - awesome photography thanks for the awesome blog :)

11th November 2014

auspicious
Michelle Duer

Phenomenal dive!! Thanks for sharing.

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