Dive Review of Truk Stop/Truk Stop Hotel in
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Truk Stop/Truk Stop Hotel, Jul, 2007, by James Knieling, NV, USA . Report 3577.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations		Food
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity	N/A
Dive Operation		Shore Diving
Snorkeling	N/A
Overall Rating
Value for $$	N/A
Beginners
Advanced
Comments	This is a basic operation. Friendly, courteous, helpful and open to divers who want doubles and nitrox. I recommend them over their competition for diving since their other end of the island operator's boatman nearly got me drowned. The room is basic, but oh the a/c is great. No outside TV, but it has a vcr & tv. I don't recommend the Sunday Buffet. This is a really poor island which makes most of the Caribbean look rich. The San Francisco Maru is a great dive at 180' with 3-tanks pointing their guns up like they are ready to fire. The Fujikawa Maru is INCREDIBLE a must see for coral & small fish lovers! The best corals & schools of fish I have ever seen in one place. It is a shallow second dive. I was incredibly lucky and hit the best weather day in six months with vis of 200 feet. My last day with their competition on a tanker was rotten. Vis of 10 feet and bad current. I was a single and stuck being last off the boat. Everyone had gone down when I was allowed to go. I could not see anything so I headed down 100-feet to the bottom. I got caught in the current and missed the boat. I surfaced behind the boat and kept signaling with my whistle & 9' New Zealand Sausage for the boat to pick me up as I floated farther & farther away. For 15 minutes I struggled without a snorkel not to use up my air, because I wanted to finish this dive. I kept having leg cramps from my torn knee & hamstring which I had operated on when I returned home. I could not get a last minute refund of my trip. -Take out early accident trip ins! He finally picked me up and I jumped in and went down to the wreck. It has very nice corals & small fish. Bottom Line: Truk is well worth diving. I recommend diving Truk Stop using a double setup which they rented me for their deep dives. It is worth a week in Palua & Truk.
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	501-1000 dives
Where else diving	Palau, Yap, Bikini Atoll, Lake Mead Nevada, Curacao, Aruba, Cozumel, Bequa Isl. Fiji, Moorea Tahiti
Closest Airport		Getting There
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny, windy, rainy, cloudy, dry	Seas	calm, surge, currents
Water Temp	83-84°F / 28-29°C	Wetsuit Thickness	1
Water Visibility	10-200 Ft/ 3-61 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	no
Enforced diving restrictions	We went to the bottom of the lagoon with rigid time constraints to avoid getting bent. You could dive your computer, but every one followed the boats out of the water constraints. They were liberal as much as possible in this deep environment.
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	N/A
What I Saw
Sharks	Lots	Mantas	1 or 2
Dolphins	None	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	> 2	Whales	None
Ratings 1(worst) - 5 (best):
Corals		Tropical Fish
Small Critters		Large Fish
Large Pelagics
Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Subject Matter	N/A	Boat Facilities	N/A
Overall rating for UWP's	N/A	Shore Facilities	N/A
UW Photo Comments	[None]

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Dive Review of Truk Stop/Truk Stop Hotel in Micronesia/Truk

Truk Stop/Truk Stop Hotel, Jul, 2007,

Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):

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Dive Review of Truk Stop/Truk Stop Hotel in
Micronesia/Truk