FSM - Chuuk -- Glimpses of islands in Truk lagoon
A few views on Weno, Moen island and some of Udot and Tol islands. Filmed in June 2012.
Sailing in Chuuk, Truk Lagoon Micronesia
When the beautiful super yacht Athos came to dive the World Famous Truk Lagoon...
Truk Lagoon Micronesia (Chuuk) Ghost Fleet Wreck Diving 2017
Join me to dive the wrecks in Truk Lagoon in November 2019 or May 2021 in partnership with Lust4Rust Diving Excursions. Becky will also be including underwater photography workshops. contact Becky@LiquidProductions.com for more images visit Truk Lagoon. Footage is available for license contact Becky@LiquidProductions.com - (Chuuk) is known as one of the best shipwreck diving locations on the planet due to the large number of sunken ships and planes in a sheltered area. In February 1944 the United States Navy launched a large surface and air attack for 3 days called Operation Hailstone sinking over 40 ships, and destroying more than 275 planes. Truk was the Japanese anchorage during WWII and the USA took out merchant ships, battleships, destroyers, tankers, minesweepers, and gunboats making this area the largest shipwreck graveyard in the world. This video was shot in December 2017.
US Air Raid on the Japanese Held Truk Island | 1944 | World War 2 Newsreel
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Amazing vintage newsreel of an air raid as America takes the Truk Island (today Chuuk Island) from the Japanese on February 16-17, 1944.
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND / CONTEXT
Operation Hailstone was a massive naval air and surface raid launched on February 16–17, 1944, during World War 2 by the United States Navy against the Japanese naval and air base at Truk in the Caroline Islands.
The Truk Island was a major Japanese logistical base as well as the operating home base for the Imperial Japanese Navy's Combined Fleet. Some have described it as the Japanese equivalent of the US Navy's Pearl Harbor. The Truk was the only major Japanese airbase within range of the Marshall Islands and was a significant source of support for Japanese garrisons located on islands and atolls throughout the central and south Pacific. The base was the key logistical and operational hub supporting Japan's perimeter defenses in the central and south Pacific.
To ensure air and naval superiority for the upcoming invasion of Eniwetok U.S. Admiral Raymond Spruance ordered a raid on Truk. Vice Admiral Marc A. Mitscher's Task Force 58 had five fleet carriers (USS Enterprise, USS Yorktown, USS Essex, USS Intrepid, and USS Bunker Hill and four light carriers), embarking more than 500 planes. Supporting the carriers was a large fleet of seven battleships, and numerous cruisers, destroyers, submarines, and other support ships.
Fearing that the base was becoming too vulnerable, the Japanese had relocated the aircraft carriers, battleships, and heavy cruisers of the Combined Fleet to Palau a week earlier. However, numerous smaller warships and merchant ships remained in and around the anchorage and several hundred aircraft were stationed at the island's airfields.
Operation Hailstone involved a combination of air raids, surface ship actions, and submarine activities over two days and appeared to take the Japanese completely by surprise. During the two-day operation, the F6F Hellcat and P-47 Thunderbolt fighters raid on Japanese airfields, aircraft, shore installations, and ships in and around the Truk anchorage. A force of U.S. surface ships and submarines guarded possible exit routes from the island's harbor to catch any Japanese ships that tried to escape.
Over 250 Japanese aircraft were eliminated, mostly on the ground. Many of the aircraft were in various states of assembly, having just arrived from Japan in disassembled form aboard cargo ships. Very few of the assembled aircraft were able to take off in response to the U.S. action. The U.S. lost twenty-five aircraft, mainly due to the intense anti-aircraft fire from Truk's defenses.
The action for the most part ended Truk as a major threat to Allied operations in the central Pacific; the Japanese garrison on Eniwetok was denied any realistic hope of reinforcement and support during the invasion that began on February 18, 1944, greatly assisting U.S. forces in their conquest of that island. Truk was isolated by Allied (primarily U.S.) forces as they continued their advance towards Japan by invading other Pacific islands such as Guam, Saipan, Palau, and Iwo Jima.
Today:
The Truk Island (トラック諸島) today called Chuuk Island (チューク諸島). 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.
US Air Raid on the Japanese Held Truk Island | 1944 | World War 2 Newsreel
NOTE: THE VIDEO DOCUMENTS HISTORICAL EVENTS. SINCE IT WAS PRODUCED DECADES AGO, IT HAS HISTORICAL VALUES AND CAN BE CONSIDERED AS A VALUABLE HISTORICAL DOCUMENT. THE VIDEO HAS BEEN UPLOADED WITH EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES. ITS TOPIC IS REPRESENTED WITHIN HISTORICAL CONTEXT. THE VIDEO DOES NOT CONTAIN SENSITIVE SCENES AT ALL!
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Chuuk, Micronesia (America's Compact Countries Part 3/4) 4K
Part 1 Marshall Islands
Part 2 Pohnpei, FSM
Part 3 Chuuk, FSM
Part 4 Palau
An overview of Chuuk (or Truk) in the Federated States of Micronesia as part of the U.S. Compact of Free Association. Looks at its history, it's sunken treasure from 1944's Operation Hailstone, its current social advantages and disadvantages, and the first class Xavier High School, one of the best schools in the far pacific. This is part 3 of a 4 part series on the U.S. Compact. The other parts cover the Marshall Islands and Palau. Filmed on location in March 2018.
Shot on Panasonic GH5 10 bit
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Limited Credits
Directed, Filmed,
Written & Narrated By
David Whalen
Produced By
Richard Taylor
Produced By
David Whalen
Featuring
Douglas Moror
Executive Director
Chuuk Visitor Bureau
Alpha Farata
Local Guide
Fr. Thomas Benz
Superior
Jesuit Community of Micronesia
Maria Moreno
Xavier H.S. Teacher
Music
Mahler - Symphony No. 5
Adagietto (4th Movement)
By Wilfred Symphony Orchestra
Shutterstock Music Canada ULC
Land of Wonders
By Remember the Future
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Haze of Strings
By Tiny Music
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On Top of Yosemite
By Tiny Music
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Liquid Soul - Diving Truk Lagoon Micronesia
Diving with Truk Lagoon Dive Center in Chuuk, Micronesia. Filled with WWII wrecks from the Japanese occupation, Truk Lagoon is an amazing dive destination. From beginner to Tech it's one of the top destinations in the world for diving.
Truk Lagoon: Island Tour
A tour of the remains of some of the Japanese land-based installations at Truk Lagoon, including Airport Island and Dublon seaplane base. The fish factory is quite recent, but Japanese.
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ミクロネシア連邦チューク州
沈船ダイビング、レックダイビング
世界最高のレックダイビング
Chuuk, Federated States of Micronesia
World's Greatest Wreck Diving
Truk lagoon
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Truk Lagoon Dive center and Truk stop hotel
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Tru Master Liveaboard, Micronesia
[ 4K Ultra HD ] 絶景空撮：トラック環礁 Aerial Drone footage of Truk Lagoon,Chuuk,Micronesia
ミクロネシア連邦 チューク州 トラック環礁のドローン空撮映像です。
トラック環礁（チューク環礁,Chuuk Atoll）は、直径約60km の世界最大級の珊瑚礁の環礁です。
環礁内には200以上の大小様々な島があります。
Drone aerial footage of Truk Lagoon (Chuuk Atoll) in Federated States of Micronesia .
Truk Lagoon (Chuuk Atoll) is the largest coral reef in the world, about 60 km in diameter.
There are over 200 large and small islands in the atoll.
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Chuuk State
Chuuk State (also known as Truk) is one of the four states of the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM). The other states are Kosrae State, Pohnpei State, and Yap State. It consists of several island groups:
Chuuk Atoll
Nomwisofo
Hall Islands
Namonuito Atoll (Magur Islands) (northwest)
Pattiw (Western Islands)
Eastern Islands (Upper Mortlock Islands)
Mortlock Islands
Chuuk was one of six districts of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands (TTPI) which were administered by the United States under charter from the United Nations from the end of the Second World War to the mid-1980s. The termination of U.S. administration of the Chuuk, Yap, Kosrae, Pohnpei, and Mariana Islands districts of the TTPI occurred on November 3, 1986. The Federated States of Micronesia, including Chuuk, Yap, Kosrae, and Pohnpei, was established in 1979 and signed a Compact of Free Association with the U.S. (effective November 3, 1986).
On July 2, 2002, heavy rains from Tropical Storm Chataan caused more than thirty landslides that killed forty-seven people and injured dozens others, in the state's deadliest weather disaster. The landslides occurred throughout the day, some within just minutes of each other.
Geography
To the west is Yap State. To the east are Pohnpei State and Kosrae State is further east.
The main population center of Chuuk State is the Chuuk Lagoon, a large archipelago with mountainous islands surrounded by a string of islets on a barrier reef. The two major geographical and dialectic divisions of the Chuuk Lagoon are Faichuuk, the western islands, and Namoneas, the eastern islands.
Chuuk State also includes several more sparsely populated outer island groups, including the Mortlock Islands to the southeast, the Hall Islands (Pafeng) to the north, Namonuito Atoll to the northwest, and the Pattiw Region to west. The Pattiw Region is of particular interest in that it has some of the most traditional islands in the Pacific and is culturally related to outer islands of Yap. This group includes the islands of Pollap, Tamatam, Poluwat, and Houk. Today you can still find traditional master navigators—Poluwat and Pollap are considered to have some of the best navigators and ocean-going outrigger canoes in the Pacific. In the islands of the Pattiw Region, and some of the Islands of Yap, you will still find today the last two remaining schools of navigation, Weriyeng and Faaluush. Visiting the Pattiw Region in the west, however, is difficult due to the lack of reliable transportation. Houk probably has the most accessible airstrip in the Pattiw Region, with planes landing every one or two weeks.
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Chuuk Lagoon Diving highlight 2017.01.02 - 01.07
Chuuk Lagoon Diving highlight
Federated States of Micronesia
Blue Lagoon diving shop & resort.
1st: Betty Bomber Wreck
2nd: Rio de Janeiro Maru Wreck
3rd: Emily Flying Boat
4th: Fujikawa Maru Wreck
5th: Kiyosumi Maru Wreck
6th: Jill Torpedo Bomber
7th: Nippo Maru Wreck
8th: Sankisan Maru Wreck
9th: Gosei Maru Wreck
10th: Heian Maru Wreck
11th: Jeep Island Reef
2017.01.02 - 2017.01.07
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Truk Lagoon - August 2019 - Chuuk, Micronesia with SubmersibleHuman - departing Brisbane
Join the chipper group of divers headed to the South Pacific - the Federated States of Chuuk - Truk Lagoon WWI Ship and Aircraft Wrecks, immersive history and an amazing location to watch the world slow down for a spell.
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