Recently acquired Lodge on Ulthi Atoll, Yap State, FSM-may lease diveshop?

[Ulithi Adv. Lodge]

Greetings- Noob here.

I wanted to throw out a possible opportunity for the leasing of a dive shop out in Ulithi, Micronesia. We own the lodge with about an acre of land (10 rooms, beach front, fully furnished), built it 2000 with about 26 years left on the lease. There was originally a dive shop there but it has long since closed. We are not interested in running a shop and are really want to encourage business on the atoll. The lodge is the only place to stay and eat (unless you know a local) on the entire 60 mile ring of 40+ islands-200 or so miles of pristine reef with incredible wall diving opportunity. There is also a 600 ft WWII ship sitting in 80-120 ft that was rediscovered in 2001. Cameron stayed at the lodge for his Challenger Deep dive last year. You can get to Yap for 70k frequent flyer miles from anywhere in the continental U.S. and the lodge is a 100 miles away reached by a 9 seat Queen Air twice a week. It is a pretty spectacular setting and about as wild as it gets.

If anyone is interested check out the atoll on Google Earth and Wikipedia (search for Ulithi). The lodge is on the SW side of the island of Falalop, just outside the atoll. You can see the lodge and the old diveshop in the back.
Cheers!
John

 

[Kevrumbo]

The WWII ship is the USS Mississinewa, an oiler which was unfortunately the first ship to be attacked by a Japanese Kaiten --a manned guided suicide torpedo. Very interesting history, and a must see on any wreck divers's bucket list.

USS Mississinewa (AO-59) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Good luck! I hope you can get dive operations started up again on Ulithi . . .

 

[TheQuickening1101]

Awesome! Welcome to Scubaboard, hope you get an operation there soon

 

[Ulithi Adv. Lodge]

Awesome! Welcome to Scubaboard, hope you get an operation there soon

You are correct about the Mississinewa. There are some YouTube videos that Wreck Hunters (search for Ulithi) produced years ago. It is considered a place to be honored by the community and special permission must be granted by the High Chief in MogMog if you want to dive there. I think there have been at most 5 or 6 visits since it was discovered? It is a really special place and worthy of respect. Thanks to you guys for the encouragement!