Keep on Trucin’

So divers inevitably debate which are the best dive sites in the world and usually the candidates are Red Sea, Bonaire, Cocos, Barrier reef and Galapagos etc... It would be easy to argue that anyone’s favorite site had its charms and that there is no right answer….but Truc Lagoon is just outrageously better. There are at least 5 wreck dives that are as good as any in the world…and then there are 40 more including submarines an airplanes all with in 30 minutes of the Blue Lagoon resort. There is a silly live aboard that putters around the lagoon. Why do that? Everything is right there. There are destroyers with machine guns mounted and merchant ships carrying tanks, and airplanes and gas masks covered in coral and surrounded by the occasional manta ray and shark.

There are not many fish because the locals have eaten everything in the lagoon. Blue Lagoon Resort serves fried chicken but no fish….arrrrrrgh.

The dives are between 30 feet and 200 feet and in calm, clear and warm water. Dozens of the best dives in the world. Maybe there are better individual sites…but there is no better destination.

Getting there is another story. The island of Chuuk is impossible to get to. You can connect through Guam…but guess what? Guam is impossible to get to. I was in Sydney and had to fly through Cairnes Australia…but who can get to Cairnes? So read about it as you wont be able to get there.

Comments

[DicSetleiteli]

My current mantra is that sometimes we need teachers in our lives. I never had that in my life, parents and stuff like that; I tried to stay on the outside of them or anybody that had that kind of influence.

[Course Director]

Wow, I'm very jealous. That seems amazing! Diving truly is one of the most breathtaking activities you can do, I think.

[Donna Hicks]

You've been there - you lucky so and so. Several from my dive club visited some years ago and it's certainly number 1 on my list of places to visit once the kids are old enough to be abandoned. I've dived all over the world - but rate Southern Red Sea (ie via liveaboard and not just hanging around reefs and wrecks close to Na'ama Bay) as the best for life - beating Caribbean and Barrier Reef hands down.

Top cold-water braggable dive site? St Kilda, 40 miles off the coast of the Outer Hebrides in Scotland - very remote and with extraordinary wildlife, history and underwater scenery. It has world heritate site status, one of the few in the world to hold joint status for its natural, marine and cultural qualities (says Wikipedia). Stunning.

[gabby]

I want to go DAD! Sounds amazing.