I visited Truk Lagoon for the first time in September 1999. Then I made the second trip in November 2002. I might be going there for the third time sometime in the future.

Under 160 feet of water a one man tank sitting on the deck of the San Francisco Maru.

One of the few remaining crewmen of the Japanese Navy still left on the bottom of the Lagoon since "Operation Hailstorm" February 1944.

This wreckdiver's mecca lies 630 miles southeast of Guam. Some one hundred wrecks to dive for...
all were sunk in february 1944 during operation "Hail Storm".

Bombs, unexploded torpedoes, airplanes, military equipment, gas masks,... still there on a quiet display covered with silt.

Wine bottles, pottery,....and inevitably...some of the crew...still guarding their sunken fleet.

temptation to sit in the cockpit of Japanese zero fighter resting on deck was impossible to resist.

After some six decades in salt water metals begin to dissappear. What's left from this vehicle is the engine, frame, tires and steering wheel.

Japanese Betty Bomber,...nicknamed "Flying Cigar" under 35 feet of water became a home to this Dogface Puffer.

Most dives in Truk are deep. Some shallower wrecks became an artificial coral reef, to the extent that in many areas you can't see the steel.

Hang time at 60 feet
Off-gassing in Truk Lagoon