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Thanks James, appreciate your comment!

Thank you Sean!

David, if you listen further into both videos, it reverts to mostly classical pieces. When I made this back in 20212 (?) I felt it needed something with pace to begin the video :)

Thank you JB! You never know, this lagoon holds a LOT of secrets!

@@philblake3765 Even Josh Gates of Destination Truth when he was doing a show there he was diving and the film crew and Josh could hear a truck engine running. Cheers

You're welcome Ron - thanks for the feedback!

Hi Floyd, no carving took place - the ship's dockmaster spelt out this birthday message using actual bullet shells arrayed out on this beam.

Yes, M M. All of these wrecks are war graves from WWII.

Sorry you didn't like SAIL by AWOL, Grenville. It's a bit of marmite song, but definitely elicits feedback! If you watched on, you'd hear classical music throughout the rest of the video(s). I wanted something upbeat for the opening, and don't regret using SAIL! Appreciate the good filming comment, nevertheless.

Peter, virtually all of our diving on this trip was in overhead environments. Not for the faint hearted for sure, but for the more challenging wrecks we had an experienced divemaster leading through the innards of these shipwrecks. A reel in these environments would simply become horribly entangled, and risk other divers.

Hi Jimmy, if you check in with the liveaboard that we dived with (Odyssey Adventures), their stance at the time was Open Water divers were OK to join these trips; and it was the course directors who were the most dangerous divers! I'd venture you get some experience in overhead environments, and be comfortable being deep inside wrecks. You'd also need to do your Nitrox course, to come on this trip as 100% of the diving is with nitrox / enriched air.

@@philblake3765 Cheers mate, thanks for the info!

Philip, that was actually the divemaster of the liveaboard who assembled that birthday greeting, using ammunition that was strewn around everywhere on that particular wreck. I thought it was quite a sweet gesture for my dive buddy, sorry you were offended, but pleased that you watched well into the video :)

Fair point Valentino, but i trust the classical pieces after the opening Sail music suited the subject.

Cheers JB!

JB Robertson cheers JB! Appreciate your comment :-)

@@philblake3765 I can't believe the clarity and quality in the video great job and you showed things that I have never seen before. The film quality is even better than Josh Gate's video when he was there. I have a question first off I am a big fan of the Paranormal I was wondering if you guys saw or felt anything well you know off the wall it's reported even by Josh that he could hear engines running he like a truck or tractor running when they were deep in their dive. I'm just asking. I also Subscribed. Cheers

Cody King indeed - mind boggling is a good description! Years later and I’m still talking about this trip as the most incredible diving I have done, and I started diving at five years old (that’s another story).

Cody King well spotted ;-) Thought the scene made better sense in reverse.

@@philblake3765 Had me trippin' out at first, man. I was like wow, they're swimming backwards. Wait, ALL of them are swimming backwards!

Charlie the Tuna keep watching until after Sail. I don’t think you’d object to the music after sail ;-)

Michael, virtually every wreck was teeming with live ordinance. It certainly encourages you to keep your limbs and gear tucked in and not untidy :)

Jesse McIver thank you for the feedback!

456swagger - In 1969, William A. Brown and French oceanographer Jacques Cousteau and his team explored Truk Lagoon. Following Cousteau's 1971 television documentary about the lagoon and its ghostly remains, the place became a scuba diving paradise, drawing wreck diving enthusiasts from around the world to see its numerous, virtually intact sunken ships. The shipwrecks and remains are sometimes referred to as the "Ghost Fleet of Truk Lagoon". en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuuk_Lagoon#/media/File%3ATruk_Lagoon.png

Sir Boomsalot, good spot, but of the four aircraft, three are Zeros, and one is. Claude. “Amongst the more striking features on the wreck are four disassembled Mitsubishi fighter aircraft in one of the forward holds. Three of the aircraft are A6M Zeros and the fourth is an A5M Claude, the sole known survivor of the type.”

Shower Ferriol no, the Japanese sailors aboard their respective ships died when their ships were sunk in WWII. However, aboard the submarine, yes, a diver perished as he entered the engine room and became disorientated.