Sabrina fand eine halbe Sonnenbrille in der Nähe eines versunkenen Flugzeuges in Truk

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Today we hardly did anything. Yesterday we met a bunch of english wreckdivers and the night turned to be very long and we had some beers. There were also some americans who are volunteering as teachers here. It was a very fun night and already after 3am when we went to bed.

That’s why we cancelled the island tour as well as the picnic tour, which we were actually planning to do.

The day turned to be very lazy. We were watching movies and went to the hairdresser.

At 11pm we got transfered to the airport and now we are lying here and waiting for the plane. Which is at 2.30am. So we have to wait for a looooooong time.

The last dive of that amazing vacation we did at EMILY – Kawanishi Flying Boat. She is called the “Flying Porcupine”, because she was armed with five 20mm cannons and four machine guns, plus she could carry two torpedoes and either eight 240kg bombs or 16 60kg bombs. This formidabel aponoment could also cruise at 334kph for 4500 nautical miles (8350km). She had selfceiling fuel tanks and a fireextinguisher system. This plane was heading east from Palau to the Dublon Island Sea Plane Base with several high ranking Janpanese officers on board. Mid-flight she was ambushed by American fighters who shot her up, killing many of those on board, including the co-pilot. But she lost the Americans in the clouds and managed to limp back to the Truk Lagoon. After crashlanding she sank, but the rest of the crea was saved.

First we went from Yap to Guam. I had to fill out U.S. immigration forms for each of us and when we arrived in Guam the waiting started. First passport control, which was pretty fast, then flightticket control, and then long long queue for handluggage control. I, wisely, put the big underwater lamp seperatly before letting the lugage through. So I didn’t have to let my luggage be checked twice. And again I had to take off my flipflops.

The airport was totally crowded with U.S. soldiers from Micronesia. We even saw a girl. And on the walls were pictures of there fallen soldiers, or as they call it “fallen heroes”. It’s a really sad sight. All the pictures of smiling young men, some of them more boys than men.

Then, when we were finally “in” we went to the foodcourt. There was a shop, called Wienerschnitzel, they sold all styles of hot dogs and corndogs, and no schnitzel. And next to it was a Burger King. A double whopper (large), french fries and a coke and we even tried a corn dog…yummy yummy…we were stuffed and went to the gate.

Theflight, I was stucked between dad and a pretty chobby asain guy, was not very special. I could even nap a little bit. The breakfast was uneatable and then we arrived in chuuk. It was 8.30am local time.

Our bags were the first ones that arrived and then we went to Blue Lagoon Hotel. With us an aisan guy and an australian couple. The men is pilot for the military and right now on vacation from afganisthan.

After checking in and getting our room, second floor seaside, we went to the diveshop to sign the papers. Daddy, of course, wanted to do a dive that day, but I denyed. So I arranged a dive for him at half past two, which he overslept. Well, I could have told him that before.

The dinner, I had a Japanese scrambeld egg with pork and rice – sounded complete different on the menu – was “interesting”. Erwin didn’t like it. We had a “Betthupferl”-cocktail at the bar – we were the only guests and went to bed again.

Today we arrived in Yap at around 4am. After a short sleep for something like 3 or 4 hours, we had a little breakfast. That was totally different to the one we were used to from ppr. so, we did’t try tons of food, only scrambeld eggs and a toast. Erwin will be happy about it.

We went to bed again and at 2.30 pm we geared up for the first dive. It was an easy one. So we were watching some riff-fish and some other little things. The best thing was a manta shrimp. Never seen one before. Our guide teased it a little bit so it would come out a bit more. That one we were watching around 20minutes. One diver got angry with us, because when we took a picture we came a bit too close and it hid in its sandhole. Of course, he didn’t get tired of telling that to everyone.

After the 90 minutes dive we had our shower and went to the restaurant and bar ship. There we had a little beer, which was brewed by the hotel self, and a tasty dinner. The walls of the bar where full of papermoney all over the world.

Then we went to bed. In the room is no Television, so we watched a couple of movies on the laptop.

The bad thing for my dad was, that I was very tired and I had a terrible headache, so I was grumpy the whole day. Really grumpy.