Northwest Dive Club

The third and last day of diving. First dive revisited the Nippo Maru and during
the SI/lunch watching local interisland transportation ...



hiked up to the ruins of World War II era Japanese hospital.

Last day on the island of Moen, dive gear put away, we take off sightseeing:

Jan,

If you ever publish this, or even just print it and bind it in any way, please put me on the purchase list.

I cannot tell you how much I enjoy this thread.

Thank You for posting.

Dave

sitkadiver wrote:Jan,

If you ever publish this, or even just print it and bind it in any way, please put me on the purchase list.

I cannot tell you how much I enjoy this thread.

Thank You for posting.

Dave

Im with you man. I have read every single post!

Delivering the Radiation Survey Report to northern atolls in the Marshall Islands
provided an opportunity to visit some places we did not seen before, Mejit, Ailuk
and Wotho, since their radiation exposure was minimal and did not qualified for
annual visits by the medical and scientific personnel...

And back to San Diego and another ship. It is Egabrag III which will be may next headache, or joy
New job ahead requires installing new equipment.

Leaving behind the grind for few days, sea trials after the drydock combined with some R&R

Jan K wrote:And week of wreck diving comes to an end, last day I was the only diver who
shows up on the dock at nine in the morning, the planning for the day, but
I got rewarded with two great dives on a great wreck of the Shinkoku Maru.

Jan, I cannot tell you how amazing it is to keep watching this thread go. I'm sure that many here agree.

I recently got back from Truk Lagoon, and the Shinkoku Maru was my favorite wreck there. I hope you'll enjoy these photos of her and compare them to what you remember.

Calvin

Wow, your photos show something I missed with my little dinky strobe which had no chance to catch
the richness of colors there. Thanks for really bring back memories. Truk, my favorite wreck locality...

New addition to our fleet ...

What is amazing is that today's average cellphone utilizing GPS does almost as good job navigating
as all this equipment being installed aboard the Egabrag III.

Photo shoot, Egabrag II and Egabrag III in San Diego Bay, November 3, 1983

And the time arrived to cast off the lines once again and sail toward new horizons.

And the show goes on

Back to work:

I'm impressed. A deepwater station in the Tasman Sea. That amazes me. I've been through storms at sea: Atlantic hurricanes, Arctic storms, Pacific typhoons, and even the enduring brutality of the monsoons while patrolling the South China Sea, but some of the worst seas in my memory was the normal weather in the Tasman Sea. I may be oldsalt, but you are saltier.
-Curt

Curt, comparing to your experiences, I am but a greenhorn with just a little salt spray on his skin,
my trip through the Tasman Sea was a quick one, although afterward, the shore leave in Sydney
felt really good

After the rock and roll in the Tasman Sea, the voyage north from Australia to Caroline
Islands in Micronesia was a pleasure cruise with mostly calm seas and nice warm weather.


And I got to do some more diving for fun !!!

Jan: I don't intend the hijack this thread but the picture of the Japanese pilots remind me of a personal experience. While on R&R in Japan during the Vietnam war, I met a Japanese man who had trained as a Kamikaze pilot , but the war ended before he flew a mission. I thought at the time, "How bizarre that I am having a meal and civil conversation with a man who was doing everything he could to kill my father a generation ago." I wondered if my yet unborn son would someday have the same experience with a veteran of the North Vietnamese military. In fact it has. I don't regret my service, but I hold the hope that humankind can find a better way than war to solve things. I love both of your threads and look forward to getting together someday to hear more stories.
Thanks, Curt

Curt, your comments are welcome. I know how fickle life can be. Growing up behind the Iron Curtain
and being told that USA is the enemy and then finding my new home here. One that I really appreciate...
Well, my travels took me from one World War II battlefield to another one :

On my way back home, I had few hours between airline connections in Japan.
Here is a glimpse of Japan - by a hurried tourist

Wind and rain is pummeling Whidbey and keeps me from diving right now.
It is time to add some pages to the Memory Lane ...
When I landed back in San Diego, I found that while I was gone,
bigger helicopter was added to our fleet ...