Scuba Diver with schooling fish and coral surrounding the mast of the Hoki Maru shipwreck.

Truk Lagoon, Chuuk, Micronesia, 2008

This ship's mast serves as excellent structure for schooling fish to agrregate on. Often divers will use vertical structures as a visual reference when ascending slowly. Masts and other superstructures are usually completely encrusted with marine life such as corals and sponges on these wrecks.

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