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In some of these pictures you will start to see in the inside of the ships. These were the dives that we really started weaving through the wreckage inside hallways and through door ways without any natural light to be found. And for as amazing and scary it was at the time, they were just warm up dives for the ones to come.

Some of the pictures inside the ship aren’t that great but with some imagination you can figure out what most of the objects are. It’s important to remember that every single picture is part of a ship, there is nothing else in the lagoon but sand. Hard to believe in some spots because the coral is so thick.

I forgot to add the 3/4th dive of day one, so those two from the day before will be listed first

Day one – 3rd dive
97ft
44min

Went deep inside my first engine room. Craziest rush ever. Pitch black, couldn’t see anything without light. Got scratches on legs and dinged my head. Multi levels through the engine room. Lots of focus required. At times, visibility would be nil inside the ship. Cool sea cucumbers and eels on port side of ship.

Day one – 4th dive
61ft
31 min

My first solo dive! There were other divers in other areas of the wreck but for a while, I had no one in sight and it was an incredible feeling. Also slightly terrifying. Of course it was easy because the Odyssey was right over top of me the whole time. Saw sea cucumbers spanning. They go up on their butts and shoot baby making stuff out of their mouths. It’s one of the strangest things I have ever seen.

Day two – 5th dive
95ft
55min

This was the destroyer, didn’t go inside this ship. Saw big wrench from engine room in the sand and guns on deck.

Day two – 6th dive
117ft
47 min

Amazing wreck. Saw hospital room that had a surgeons table on some tools on it. Also human remains were on the table. I won’t be posting pictures of remains, as Truk is considered a war grave, so I don’t post them out of respect. Also in this superstructure there was a bathroom with bath tub still very intact with beautiful tiles. Tons of coral on this ship. Lots of wires hanging inside some of these spaces, multilayers to the superstructure. THe masts were huge and amazing in because of coral growth. Saw a big barracuda at the end of the dive.

Day two- 7th dive
110ft
41 min

Awesome tour of the engine room. At first when we dropped into the hold, I lost the group and after searching for a few minutes decide to go back the way I had come, just to be safe. I swam over top of the group on the deck and just followed their bubbles. At one point there was another entry, so I ducked in and got a private tour of the space. This was a bit more complicated than the last one. Lots of tight spaces. Got my regular cord stuck exiting the wreck. Took a few minutes to free myself, I thought I was going to tear it on the metal when I pulled it out but it was all good. On this dive, I was hovering and taking a picture of something and an anemone stung my leg! I could kind of feel it under the water but it really started burning when I got out! Saw and filmed a shark on this dive. Action packed from beginning to end.

Day two – 8th dive NIGHT DIVE!

Little bit of a current on this dive. Although the dive was cool, there were too many divers in a small area, which was the first and only time that happened on the whole trip, so it wasn’t as cool as it could have been. We did have a big fish follow us around and when he would use our lights to hunt for smaller fish.

Stubs.