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Liveaboard Diving (English)

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Company description Welcome aboard Truk Lagoon`s SS Thorfinn, one of the world`s largest and most seaworthy live aboard wreck diving cruisers.
A superbly equipped ship well suited to wreck diving adventures at Truk Lagoon and exploring on Pan Micronesian `Voyages of Discovery`.
Big ship ambience and solid comforts for 22 guests enjoying Truk Lagoon diving.
`THORFINN` began diving Micronesia 21years ago, with Truk as a terminus for outer island cruises. Truk`s sheltered lagoon with the world`s finest shipwreck diving led this choice. Warm, relatively clear, current free waters of this great ocean lake provide comfortable diving for novice to expert. Captain and dive crew have long lived the wrecks and documented their configurations in a published sketch book. Much historic detail and information will be related at tableside conversations during your visit.
Truk Lagoon chart and various Wreck Sketches
THORFINN`S Dive Deck Features:
•Two separate dive stations port and starboard, avoid crowding with 8 divers per departure.
•Four custom rinse tanks for equipment and cameras
•Two fresh water showers with adjacent fresh towels
•Two custom boarding ladders
•Two overhead intransit camera racks
•Valet system of personal gear setup, breakdown, and after dive stowage, by your boat crew.
•Complimentary mesh bags for your active gear
•Personal gear bag stowage bins - and underseat bins within new RIB launches
•Two filling / mixing stations with in/water fills guarantee min. 3,000 psi ( 200 bar ) to 80 cu ft tks
•New Haskell Oxygen Booster for gas refills to desired pressures and blends
•Seats with weights, belts, towels, inside
•Camera valet transport from tables to boats, rinsing, and redelivery to tables post dive.
•Easy low level access to / from dive launches
•Dive training / Certifications available
•Ten local dive staff assure good service with expert guide for each 6 person group
•Lifting derricks for each boat`s onboard stowage, assure quick, positive maintenance
Technical divers receive any blend of Nitrox desired, from on board blending stations.
Technical diving has increased dramatically, and many desired items aboard include double tank bands and manifolds, Nitrox ponies, and O2 rich staged bottles.
Custom dispatched dive launches and crew serve differing schedules for extended deep diving. A Nitrox trained and certified dive crew blend breathing quality Oxygen, that is also available to rebreather equipped divers, along with 12 dedicated CCR cylinders or travel economies.
Technical training and EANx provisos, can be arranged with our capable onboard Master/Instructor.
Aspects of current operations are illustrated at this web site, along with a Virtual Dive Tour.
This flexible system of multi dive launches permits technical diving at any time without designation of a costly `deep week`.
Divers should note many wrecks with constricted passages and weakened structures are unsuited to deep penetrations with bulk of multi-tank setups.
Location description: Spectacular remains of nearly 70 coral draped Japanese ships and countless aircraft were condemned to watery graves by U.S. Naval air attacks during ``Operation Hailstone`` late in World War II. Now lying scattered upon the floor of Truk`s huge 40 mile diameter tropic lagoon, they are easily accessible to all sport divers seeking maximum attractions.
Explore massive remarkably intact hulks providing the finest collection of wreck sites in the world. Sunken bounties of bombs, torpedoes, guns, tanks, planes, mines, trucks, bulldozers, and huge cannon shells rest in ghostly silence on Truk`s floor. Draped with brilliant soft corals and colorful tropic fish, they recall a moment in time to long be remembered.
Living above the wrecks within minutes of most popular sites, diving is conducted from four 24 ft twin-engined tenders transporting no more than 6 divers and their crew to each dive site. Six diver maximums assure an uncrowded , silt free wreck with most artifacts still in place 56 years after the battle. Five different daily dive sites afford maximum selections and viewing of these corals encrusted wartime relics. Only `THORFINN` provides each diver the opportunity to explore up to 30 different wrecks in 6 days of a regular week.
Beyond Truk, the isolated beauty and traditions of Oceania await the truly discriminate diving connoisseur. `THORFINN` departs each mid-year on a series of spell binding ocean tours with overnight crossings between outer island Paradises. Virgin unvisited reefs, sparkling atolls with a gentle and beautiful people will thrill divers seeking the absolute maximum in world dive cruising.
Dive Launches:
•2 `state of art` 30 foot RIB`s
•3 speedy 24 ft. twin engined boats guarantee frequent and variable dive sites for separate diver parties
•Heavy reinforcing on both fiberglass and aluminum units assure comfortable, safe trips
•New covered RIB`s bristle with conveniences
•Portable VHF transceivers utilized to distant sites
•Fresh towels are immediately handed to guests on re-boarding dive launch
Photo Facilities:
•Two large 3 tiered camera service tables aboard ship
•Camera table / rinse pail on new RIB`s
•Air gun at each table
•Dual voltage 110 V and 208 V charging points in each room and tables
•Valet system for cameras to & from dive deck
•Big Plasma TV in lounge with E-Z viewing camera results
•Plus each cabin is equipped with individula monitors and DVD players

Website: Preview http://www.thorfinn.net by Thumbshots.org http://www.thorfinn.net
Scuba diving tours in Truk and Yap lagoons, and island cruises on the Thornfinn cruiser.

Contact information:

Phone: +691 330-3040
Fax: +691 330-4253
Mobile: (691) 930-1274/76
Street Address:
P.O. Box 1086
Weno
Chuuk State
Micronesia
96942
Spoken language(s): English
Open: from 09-00 till 17-00
Local time:  GMT + 12
Note: No guarantee is made to the accuracy of these details.

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