International trips - Micronesia - Truk

With more ocean than land, some of Micronesia's best sights are underwater. There are more than 2000 islands spread over five million kilometres of the Pacific, but many world maps don't even bother showing them. Each island group has its own culture and character as well as diving highlights. They have also been influenced in a different way by colonisation, wars, geography and politics. Dive conditions also vary enormously but what can be said, is that it is an area that should be on every diver's wish list. Throughout Micronesia divers can encounter an abundance of marine life in just about every imaginable colour and shape, with some species never seen before.

One of the world's largest enclosed lagoons Truk, is enclosed by a 225 kilometre barrier reef and covers more than 2,000 square kilometres, and is home to an entire Japanese fleet frozen in time, sank in February 1944.