Dive Review of SS Thorfinn in
Micronesia/Truk

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SS Thorfinn: "SS THORFINN bad experience", Aug, 2025, by Mary Anne Yonk, OH, US ( 1 report with 1 Helpful vote). Report 13571 has 1 Helpful vote.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations		Food
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity
Dive Operation		Shore Diving
Snorkeling	N/A
Overall Rating
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Comments	When we checked in and started to discuss the dives, Lance told us our check out dive would be down to 147'. I questioned this and his reply was "Out here we throw the (PADI) book over our shoulders". When Lance left, I saw on the dive printout it was actually only to 45'. Lance gets confused easily and was referring to the lengths of the ship rather than the dive depth. Lance tried to put my travel partner and I in one cabin in spite of the fact we paid extra for private cabins. Lance was insistent the travel agency did not communicate this to him. When we insisted that we had receipts showing we paid for this, his reply was "I don't want to run two AC units". We persisted so he finally placed us in the two separate cabins. Lance told me I could only set the temperature in my cabin at 30C (86F) during the day. I questioned this because I would be in the cabin during the day between dives and he told me it would shut down the power if I ran it below 30C during the day. Subsequently, it was very uncomfortable in the cabin. I think we can agree a temperature of 86 is not consistent with being air conditioned or comfortable. My friend discovered the AC in his cabin did not and work and when he reported this to Lance, he was told he would not be able to get it fixed for at least three more days until someone could come after a funeral. Lance told him he has stuff to 'charge it' with but he didn't know how to do that himself. Because the cabin was stifling, my friend told him he would have to sleep on the upper deck then. The upper deck's lounge chairs are made with rope and are very uncomfortable (photo attached), so Lance offered him a mat to put on the lounge chair. My friend spent a very uncomfortable night sleeping on this lounge chair only to be forced to move to the floor in the salon after a huge rainstorm came through in the middle ... Subscribe to get the full story. Active subscribers continue reading here
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	251-500 dives
Where else diving	Maldives, Fiji, Caribbean, Red Sea, Philippines, etc..
Closest Airport	Weno	Getting There	United Airlines
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny	Seas	no currents
Water Temp	80-81°F / 27-27°C	Wetsuit Thickness
Water Visibility	15-20 Ft/ 5-6 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions
Liveaboard?	yes	Nitrox Available?	yes
What I Saw
Sharks	None	Mantas	None
Dolphins	None	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	None	Whales	None
Ratings 1(worst) - 5 (best):
Corals		Tropical Fish
Small Critters		Large Fish
Large Pelagics
Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Subject Matter		Boat Facilities	N/A
Overall rating for UWP's		Shore Facilities
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Dive Review of SS Thorfinn in Micronesia/Truk

SS Thorfinn: "SS THORFINN bad experience", Aug, 2025,

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Dive Review of SS Thorfinn in
Micronesia/Truk