• Onboard

    Dining Lounge Dedicated dining lounge on ‘D’ deck provides seating for 22 guests. Friendly dining room staff serve breakfast cooked to order and other meals a la carte. Two chefs create a variety of delicious meals and daily fresh baked goods, with attention paid to all dietary needs. An additional bookcase here houses overflows of the many books in our

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    Is the Thorfinn mobile – or does it anchor centrally? Two large 30ft covered RIBs will take divers out from Thorfinn, who will stay at various central anchorage within Truk Lagoon. Thorfinn and her fleet of dive boats provide a broad mobility offering the widest range of diving at Truk, taking small groups of diver to 5 differing daily dive

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Your adventure begins at this tropic Paradise with an airport greeting by our smiling representative and baggage crew. After receiving traditional Chuukese flower ‘mwar mwars’ over your head, we’ll depart by mini bus to waiting dive launches for transfer over lagoon waters to the big dive ship S.S.’Thorfinn’.

Upon greetings by Captain and staff at arrival deck, we’ll gather in main guest lounge for refreshments and an orientation talk on Chuuk Lagoon, the Thorfinn, and our careful diving procedures. Later, after completing release forms and a check of certifications, a personal drawstring dive gear bag is provided for active gear to be delivered to your waiting dive team for preparatory setup. After lunch and a quick dive briefing, its out to assigned dive departure decks to check assembled gear and gases prior to boarding a waiting dive launch for a check-out dive about 2:00 PM.

Your personal dive staff will observe personal preferences of gear assembly, to ensure its continuing order through balance of stay if desired. Camera equipment readied at C deck camera tables will also be carefully transported to your launch’s camera shelfs as desired.

Mornings begin with coffee and hot tea always ready at lounge bar along with tasty morning baking for a starting snack. Full American style breakfasts are served a la carte at ship’s ‘D’ deck dining lounge by 7:00 AM. First dive departures at 8:00 AM are followed by others as shown on posted daily dive schedules in the lounge. Average 10 minute launch rides precede securing to nearby dive sites, where boat staff assist final dive preps prior to water entry.

Cameras and lights are passed over when ready, followed by descent with guide and others down mooring line to a shipwreck or reef site. Your dive guide will have provided a brief dive plan before commencing dive.

Incredible views of Truk’s giant wartime fleet covered with myriads of beautiful corals and brightly colored fish await your eyes. Ocean reef dives present gin clear views of virgin wall life beyond most visitor’s dreams. Your guide is prepared to lead to the site’s best interests or follow divers wishing to find their own discoveries. Penetrations into big and fragile wrecks is permitted on a buddy basis, and preferably with our experienced guides. Internal wreck dive procedures and navigation are most seriously regarded for safety considerations.

Regular single cylinder air divers are instructed to begin ascending from depth with 1,000 psi or 70 bar remaining on a 3 plateau basis. Stops at 18m for 2 minutes, followed by a second stop at 9m for 3 minutes, and final 10 minute stop between 4 to 5m before rising to boat stairway. A safety air cylinder is always suspended at 6 meters for any emergency use, and is brought down to wreck site on dives below 45m for contingency use at depth if needed. Nitrox for shallower depths is provided to suitably certified users. Cameras, lights, and fins are passed up to waiting hands prior to mounting stairs. Fresh water showers, dry towels and cool water to drink are immediately available on board before return ride to ship. Boat crew will handle equipment and rinse and stow all dive and photo gear without need for guest assistance. Warm water deck showers on both sides of ship will serve to freshen up and drying off before proceeding to inner quarters.

Snacks and refreshments await at guest lounge or aft deck spa during relaxing surface breaks between scheduled 4 day dives, and after evening night dives.

DVDs are available from a central library for viewing at large plasma TV in lounge and smaller sets in guest rooms. Underwater photos/videos can be viewed at these sets also. A ship’s store/boatique offers many items of interest in books, handicrafts, postcards and T shirts.

Spacious sun decks and lounging furniture afford great tanning locations or cool places under awnings to read a book and enjoy refreshments. After dark, brilliant views of heavenly bodies are seen by star gazers sitting out or laying back in the big Jacuzzi deck spa.Guest towels are always ready at camera table racks for use on chairs or from spa.

Similar patterns unfold from central ship as it moves between several central anchorages close to scheduled dives at the time. Ocean dive tour passages are conducted at night with each reef/island destination affording views of a seldom visited, near virgin world.

Visitors braving engine room warmths to view huge operating steam machinery are usually mesmerized by gleaming piston rods driving a massive open crankshaft. Thorfinn’s entire propulsive system is driven by steam produced from two USA built Foster Wheeler water tube boilers. Numerous pieces of steam machinery operate whisper quiet in comparison to diesel sounds.

Final Fridays are concluded with an evening aft deck barbeque party, often followed with ‘local motions’ by ship’s staff displaying Pacific Island movements that can lead into lively party music for guest evening enjoyment! Lasting impressions of happy people will linger from this friendly tropic world.

Visits to nearby islands in the lagoon for a view of local life and to see items left from a past Japanese era are available on request.

A normal weekly stay will end with fond farewells and disembarkation mid-morning on Saturday.