Pan Micro Cruises

Beyond Truk, the isolated beauty and traditions of Oceania await truly discriminating dive connoisseurs. With suitable numbers for a charter SS THORFINN' departs each mid-year on a series of spell binding ocean tours with overnight crossings between outer island Paradises. Virgin unvisited reefs, sparkling atolls with a gentle and beautiful people will thrill divers seeking the absolute maximum in world dive cruising.

Our 2 Pan Micronesian trips, running in June 2011 between Truk and Palau are proving to be very popular, and spaces are selling fast. Currently we have just 5 cabins available, so if you are interested in coming with us on this trip of a lifetime, please contact us immediately. These tours visit a side of Pacific ocean life totally removed from modern systems and civilizations – unexplored reefs, virgin atolls and friendly people all abound at the many pristine atolls dotting the ocean on these routes.

The outer island atolls of Truk's Western Islands, and the Neighboring Islands of Yap abound with the pristine beauty and isolation of Oceania. Each island awaits our visits with welcoming anticipations and are ready to show on board guests the magic and wonders that hold these people to their distant shores so far removed from the intense bustle of a modern world.

The culture and history of these island people is only matched by nature's extravagance of magnificent reef life and waters unknown to regular divers visiting busy island capitals.

Island names such as Pulap Atoll, Puluwat Atoll, Pulusuk, Satawal, Pikelot, West Fayu Atoll, Lamotrek Atoll, Olimarao Atoll, Eauripik Atoll, Ifalik Atoll, Sorol Atoll, Ulithi Atoll and Ngulu Atoll, and near countless others are all ready to welcome our very occasional visits when choosing to include them in our 6 to 8 island and reef visits on each tour in both east and west directions.

Each tour features a selection of these sites with varying stays based on guest interest and island permissibility’s at the time.

Visits primarily focus on underwater interests, but will include island visits at many sites, requiring conformity to local traditions and customs. Many islands will have displays of local dancing and crafts. Some locations forbid power boats, relying entirely on big carved sailing canoes. A ride on a big ocean sailing canoe will surpass most visitor's dreams. Sharks, manta rays, turtles and a wide array of fish life are seen in profusion, especially at exposed and uninhabited locations. Most guests average 3 dives per day, mixing this with island visits, but there is always the option to dive 5 times a day. This is new, adventurous diving in locations rarely visited in gin clear water – visibility on the outer reefs is generally 150-200ft.

Various islands have WWII artifacts above and below their lagoon waters. Japanese war planes, U.S. bombers, defense guns, buildings and an abandoned lighthouse, old aircraft runways, and shipwrecks exist at several sites.

These dream cruises exceed near all expectations for connoisseurs of fine dive travel.