Welcome to the Wrecks of Paradise..!
Thanks
for interests to dive at Truk Lagoon's famous 'Shipwreck City' aboard the SS 'Thorfinn'.
This ship provides maximum selections and diving variety on Truk's huge sunken
war treasures.
Five daily dive options each to different wreck
sites permit the widest view of every interest at this diving Mecca. Thorfinn
began live aboard diving at Micronesia 24 years ago, and her proven concepts continue
to lead a very competitive field.
A team of certified, local
dive guides accompany divers in close by-law compliance, assuring safe and enjoyable
visits to huge war monuments.
This largest of dedicated dive
vessels provides great space for 22 divers served by 21 cheerful Micronesian crew
members. Luxury accommodations, well prepared food by two chefs, latest giant
hi-def Plasma TV and huge DVD library, big whirlpool spa, in-room TV-VCRs-DVDs
and cozy guest lounges are a portion of many onboard comforts and conveniences.
From the ship at lagoon anchorages, five big dive tenders
with expert guides and boatmen provide a mobile diving system.
Two
new impressive 'state of art' 10m covered RIBs carry 8-10 divers each with 2 guides
per boat, and three 8m twin engined open boats suit up to 6 divers with guide.
All visit different dive sites simultaneously.
This system
assures uncrowded silt-free photography by avoiding repetitive diving over a single
site, and fragile wrecks are free of large vessel overstrains.
Beautiful
coral draped relics of a once proud battle fleet satisfy most photographer's dreams.
Nature's slow reclamation of man's war tools is a near magic process at Truk.
Luminescent corals and endless species of aquatic life at this sheltered Pacific
location will keep it high in your diving memories.
Nitrox
from an onboard partial blending station supplies desired blends up to pure O2,
and a ready supply of Oxygen is available for all technical purposes. EAN 32 is
freely supplied to certified users on the Nitrox package, and at cost with Sunrise
Specials.
A technical DiveMaster/Instructor is ready to assist
with specialty certifications as desired. Technical dive services include double
tank rigs, Nitrox ponies, and O2 rich staged bottles.Custom rebreather cylinders
with pre-ordered Sofnalime suit the rebreather users.
Custom
dispatched dive launches and crew for 3 or more divers serve differing schedules
for extended deep diving.
Comfortable diving at Truk suits
most divers with high attractions from shallow to deep. With over 50 ships and
up to 200 aircraft lying in depths from 6 ft. to 200 ft. visitors can stay within
their own personal comfort levels while experiencing wide diversities each wreck
offers.
Truk is a true year round destination with little seasonal
change in temp or precipitation. A rainy hour, day, or occasional week may occur,
but never predictably.Temp. in or out of the water is about 85 deg F without thermoclines.
Underwater visibility of 40 -100 ft. in Truk Lagoon ranges
to champagne like 150+ ft. on Pan Micronesian outer island cruises described next.
'Thorfinn' often visits pristine oceanic atolls comprising
much of Micronesia. These specially arranged charter cruises visit virgin vibrant
reefs untouched by modern divers, and islands unchanged through the millenniums.
Scheduled during mid year calms from June through August, explorers view some
of the world's finest exposed reef locations. Cruises from Truk to Yap, and Yap
to Truk are labeled as Pan Micronesian Voyages targeted to nature seekers with
many great reefs and islands too numerous for just one voyage.
Continental
Micronesia is the principal air carrier to Micronesia, and connects most world
points to Truk via their hubs of Guam and Hawaii.
Seaward
Holidays' booking office can offer attractive air / dive travel packages for your
entire tour if desired and requested in your reply.
Our website
supplies many pages of data on operations, itineraries, current rates / booking
procedures and tour package details.
Incentives for agents,
clubs, and dive shops include highest free tour leader considerations on package
options, and massive incentives for group travel organizers with special Full
or Half Ship Charters restoring advantages for divers to book into a group with
a favored dive travel provider, local dive shop or group leader to enjoy suitable
savings over individual fares.
We welcome close evaluations
and comparisons to identify much more diving and related services for equal costs
during any given week's period with value-packed 7days diving at up to 35 different
sites aboard 'Thorfinn'.
Divers wishing to maximize a full
7 days diving aboard, can later off gas for a day at a shoreside hotel, or enjoy
group options at a remote lagoon island beachside resort, snorkeling and relaxing
before a departing flight.
We trust the foregoing provides
some basic information, and our shoreside booking office will respond with our
usual 'flash' responses to your booking requests.
Our happy
staff family look forward to possibly serving you on a future visit to enjoy some
of the world's finest and safest wreck and reef diving.
See
our Trip Preparation bulletin for further details.
Yours
in fine dive cruising,
Captain Lance Higgs,
SS
THORFINN
Seaward Holidays Micronesia Inc.
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