Witness to War: Truk Lagoon's Master Diver Kimiuo Aisek (Japanese Kanji)

by Dianne Strong

Overview

Photographers and writers have documented the shipwrecks of Truk Lagoon. Now author Dianne M. Strong presents this homage to the man who made the diving possible. Kimiuo Aisek (1927-2000) founded the diving industry in Chuuk, Micronesia, and put Truk on the world wreck diver’s map. As a seventeen-year old, Aisek witnessed “Operation Hailstone,” the American attack on “the Gibraltar of the Pacific.” Author Strong has attempted to depict through his eyes the world that Kimiuo lived, as an islander born under the Japanese mandate and as founder of Blue Lagoon Dive Shop. Pacific World War II history buffs and scuba divers will especially enjoy this unique Horatio Alger tale that Strong has written in her engaging “talk story” style. Now translated into Kanji, Japanese readers can learn the heartwarming story of how Kimiuo's friendships during wartime led to his becoming a worldwide legend and Truk Lagoon became an international memorial.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940152001150
Publisher:	Dianne Strong
Publication date:	05/24/2015
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	3 MB
Language:	Japanese

About the Author

In 2013 Dianne M. Strong, Ed.D. raised $23,406 on Kickstarter and self published "Witness To War: Truk Lagoon's Master Diver Kimiuo Aisek." This 304-page hardcover book included 16 pages of full color, and full cover in the insides covers. Thousands of divers around the world know Dianne M. Strong as the Internet's "StrongDiver" or "TrukDiver." As the "adopted American daughter" of Kimiuo Aisek, she was uniquely qualified to write this biography. In 1970 she became a YMCA scuba instructor, and crossed over to the National Association of Underwater Instructors (NAUI) in 1977. Her certification as a trimix technical diver--enabling her to explore the underwater world to a depth of 200' using air with helium--is from the International Association of Nitrox and Technical Divers (IANTD). Before moving to the US Territory of Guam in 1972, she dove shipwrecks off the East Coast and the sunken R.M.S. Empress of Ireland passenger liner in Quebec, Canada. In 2001 she dove the nuclear shipwrecks at Bikini Lagoon in the Marshall Islands. She has been diving Truk Lagoon since June 1973 and loves diving the “ship reefs.” Strong holds two degrees in journalism: a B.A. from the Henry W. Grady School of Journalism at the University of Georgia (1967) and an M.S. in mass media from Syracuse University's Newhouse Communication Center (1970). Her Ed.D. in intercultural education is from the University of Southern California (USC, 1982). She taught writing at the University of Guam for eighteen years. By writing “Witness To War,” Dr. Strong had an opportunity to “practice what she preached.”