Truk Lagoon Odyssey Liveaboard June 4-12th, 2016
$5,620 for this Luxury Liveaboard scuba diving trip which includes:
6 days diving up to 5 dives a day
NITROX, Doubles if desired
Round Trip Airfare from HNL
(transfers, taxes, and dive permit included)
Live aboard is the way to go when you want to dive in Truk Lagoon. The Odyssey is said to be the best 4 star live aboard yacht in the MidPac.
Chuuk State consists of seven major island groups lying within the Eastern Caroline Islands, about 617 miles
Southeast of Guam and 3,262 miles Southwest of Hawaii. Chuuk is located 7 degrees North latitude, 149 degrees East longitude.
Diving in Truk Lagoon is an adventure you will never forget. Dozens of visually 
dazzling WWII wrecks are scattered across 77 square miles. The wrecks are covered with marine life, stem to stern. There are more than 300 varieties of hard and soft corals.
On the outer reef, you will find mountains of coral that stretch as far as the eye can see and drop off into the abyss. It is not unusual to see large fish and pelagic sharks.
Water temperature ranges from 82 to 84 degrees Fahrenheit.
Visibility ranges from 30’ to over 100’ depending on where you are in the lagoon.
Your day aboard the Truk Odyssey begins after a 7am hot breakfast with the first dive brief about 7:45am. Most days you will do two dives before lunch. During lunch, the boat will generally move to a new site. When lunch is done, you can either do a third dive or relax in your room or out on either of the sundecks. A late afternoon dive is next.
Dinner is served around 6:30pm. After dinner you may choose to do a fifth (night) dive or hang around the salon and relax or sort through the thousand photos you took on your first four dives.
Guests generally gather in the entertainment lounge to watch a movie or watch your videos of the day’s dives.
Most of the dive sites are fairly close together, so it’s easy for the boat to move around. They don’t require everyone to dive at the same time. It’s not unusual for a buddy team to be the only divers on a 500’ wreck. Photographers have more opportunities to shoot the wrecks without waiting for others to get out of the shot.
Operation Hailstone: (Briefly)
Truk was a major Japanese logistical base as well as the operating home base for the Imperial Japanese Navy’s Combined Fleet during WWII. The atoll was the only major Japanese airbase within range of the Marshall Islands and was a significant source of support for the Japanese garrisons located on islands and atolls throughout the Central and South Pacific.
On February 17, 1944, the US attacked, raining devastation on anything Japanese on or near Truk, using a combination of airstrikes, surface ship actions and submarine attacks over two days. Several daylight and nighttime airstrikes employed fighters, dive bombers and torpedo aircraft in attacks on Japanese airfields, aircraft, shore installations and ships in and around Truk Lagoon and anchorage. A force of US surface ships and submarines guarded possible exit routes from the island’s anchorages to attack any Japanese ships that tried to escape.
In total, the attack sank at least three Japanese light cruisers (Agano, Katori & Naka), four destroyers (Oite, Fumizuki, Maikaze & Tachikaze), three auxiliary cruisers, (Akagi Maru, Aikoku Maru, Kiyosumi Maru), two submarine tenders (Heian Maru & Rio de Janeiro Maru), three smaller warships (including sub chasers CH-24 & Shonan Maru 15), aircraft transport Fujikawa Maru and 32 merchant ships. Some of the ships were destroyed in the anchorage and some in the area surrounding Truk Lagoon. Many of the merchant ships were loaded with reinforcements and supplies for Japanese garrisons in the Central Pacific area. Very few of the troops aboard the sunken ships survived and little of their cargo was recovered. Operation Hailstone, for the most part, ended Japan’s occupation of Truk and a major threat to Allied operations in the Central Pacific.
Truk Odyssey amenities include:
- Large portholes or windows in each cabin
- Full air conditioning in all salons and staterooms
- Private ensuite bathrooms and showers in each stateroom
- Large entertainment lounge with TV,DVD and VCR
- Movie library to choose from
- Library of books and magazines
- Meals: breakfast, lunch, dinner and all snacks
- Beer, wine and other beverages
- Airport transfers
Truk Odyssey dive deck facilities include:
- Personal dive lockers
- Two gear rinse tanks
- Large, convenient dive platform
- Two dive ladders
- Fixed safety/deco bar
- Tanks are filled at your seat
- Freshwater shower
- Warm deck towels
- Nitrox, for certified Nitrox divers
- DIN or yoke valves
- Tanks (alum 80 and steel 112)
- weights and belts
Photographer support systems include:
- Large 3 tier camera table
- Two camera rinse tanks
- Large slide table
- Battery changing station
Truk Odyssey Boat Specifications:
- Length: 132’, Beam: 24’, draft 6’
- Type: Welded steel
- Engines: Twin screw Detroit Diesel
- Tenders: 25’ custom aluminum with 40hp Yamaha outboard motors and 20’ aluminum with 40hp Yamaha outboard
- Compressors: Two Mako 13.1cfm 5000 PSI
- Nitrox: Membrane System, storage banks for 7100 cubic feet
