Truk Lagoon Biography to be published
Posted: Thu Mar 14, 2013 2:23 am
Hafa a'dai and Ran Annim from Guam!
In November 2013 "Witness to War: Truk Lagoon's Master Diver Kimiuo Aisek" will be released.
The money to publish this biography was raised on Kickstarter:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/276 ... -kimiuo-ai
While Dan Bailey, Klaus Lindemann and many others have written about the wrecks of Truk Lagoon, no one has written the story of the man who made diving them possible.
On 13 November 1973 Kimiuo Aisek founded the Blue Lagoon Dive Shop.The shop's logo is a silhouette of the Aikoku Maru with the Imperial Japanese flag in the background.
Not just divers but anyone who appreciates Pacific War history will enjoy this book. Its eleven chapters will describe Kimiuo's life during the Nan'yo days, and the two days he was eyewitness to "Operation Hailstone," the US aerial attack on Japan's Combined 4th Naval Fleet, Feb. 17-18, 1944. It will cover the arrival of jet travel to the tiny islands of Micronesia, the Cousteau expedition, and the many celebrities who came to dive the wrecks with Kimiuo. It concludes with Kimiuo's death in 2001, at age 73.
But the book's central thesis is not this humble man's success -- it is the story of a Trukese islander who had transformed compassion for his Japanese wartime friends into a passion for diving on the ships on which they had died.
I welcome any inquiries, and congratulations on a fabulous forum that provides a unique service.
Dianne Strong, Yona, Guam
In November 2013 "Witness to War: Truk Lagoon's Master Diver Kimiuo Aisek" will be released.
The money to publish this biography was raised on Kickstarter:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/276 ... -kimiuo-ai
While Dan Bailey, Klaus Lindemann and many others have written about the wrecks of Truk Lagoon, no one has written the story of the man who made diving them possible.
On 13 November 1973 Kimiuo Aisek founded the Blue Lagoon Dive Shop.The shop's logo is a silhouette of the Aikoku Maru with the Imperial Japanese flag in the background.
Not just divers but anyone who appreciates Pacific War history will enjoy this book. Its eleven chapters will describe Kimiuo's life during the Nan'yo days, and the two days he was eyewitness to "Operation Hailstone," the US aerial attack on Japan's Combined 4th Naval Fleet, Feb. 17-18, 1944. It will cover the arrival of jet travel to the tiny islands of Micronesia, the Cousteau expedition, and the many celebrities who came to dive the wrecks with Kimiuo. It concludes with Kimiuo's death in 2001, at age 73.
But the book's central thesis is not this humble man's success -- it is the story of a Trukese islander who had transformed compassion for his Japanese wartime friends into a passion for diving on the ships on which they had died.
I welcome any inquiries, and congratulations on a fabulous forum that provides a unique service.
Dianne Strong, Yona, Guam