Advice on Diving inJapan

...awara Group The Ogasawara group of islands lies far out in the Pacific, and includes the famous island of Iwojima. The long island chain is north of the Mariana Trench and trails off the Izu Peninsula near Tokyo. This chain of islands is the tip of huge submarine Pacific mountains. The islands are famous for whale migration. The trip to these islands requires that you take a ferry from Tokyo Bay. It takes a minimum of 24 hours in good weather to arrive on the main island of Chichijima. This dive destination is not for the faint of heart or weak of stomach, but once you get there the clear, wa...