We arrived in Chuuk after a long two days of flying completely exhausted.....we were promplty greeted at the airport by the Thorfinn staff, who were friendly and helpful. They took our luggage and shuttled us across "town" to the tenders that were waiting. The area is quite rough and filthy, but I have scene worse. The tenders took us to the waiting Thorfinn. We waited and wandered for no reason with no orientation to the ship, then finally, they served dinner, and afterwards.......the arrogant self indulged captain bored us for two hours of his version of WW2, still without any orientation to the ship, or the schedule and diving arrangements. Finally we got out for a nite dive, 7 hours after our arrival, most were too exhausted, but four of us made it.
Got back to our room, and we had no A/C, and my computer had our room at 90 degrees all of the time we were there. No sleep in the cabin, had to sleep on the outer deck or in the main lounge. This was the case all week, only two of our group of sixteen had cool enough rooms to sleep.
First full day of dives, we were ill prepared due to lack of briefing and oreintation.....people did not get the gear they wanted(sling bottles with 50%) after the first day, all requests were handled properly by the dive operation.
In short, the captain is an ass, the boat is a piece of crap.........but the staff and crew were great, food was good, homemade and plentiful, and the diving was epic.
They offer little flexibility in dive sites, we had some lessor experienced divers who would of enjoyed a less challenging set of dives than 150fsw ship penetrations every morning. I, however, enjoyed the dives very much.........
my advice..........try the Truk Oddysey!
Got back to our room, and we had no A/C, and my computer had our room at 90 degrees all of the time we were there. No sleep in the cabin, had to sleep on the outer deck or in the main lounge. This was the case all week, only two of our group of sixteen had cool enough rooms to sleep.
First full day of dives, we were ill prepared due to lack of briefing and oreintation.....people did not get the gear they wanted(sling bottles with 50%) after the first day, all requests were handled properly by the dive operation.
In short, the captain is an ass, the boat is a piece of crap.........but the staff and crew were great, food was good, homemade and plentiful, and the diving was epic.
They offer little flexibility in dive sites, we had some lessor experienced divers who would of enjoyed a less challenging set of dives than 150fsw ship penetrations every morning. I, however, enjoyed the dives very much.........
my advice..........try the Truk Oddysey!
