Lauren Smith

A Great Way to Try Diving before Signing up for a Scuba Class

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There are different scubaA Great Way to Try Diving before Signing up for a Scuba Class diving experiences you can try before committing to your certification.  You might not be sure how you will like diving underwater and to make a financial commitment can to something you have never experienced before can be daunting.  Island Divers Hawaii offers a few different programs to give you your first experience of breathing underwater without being certified.

If you are not confident yet to dive in the ocean you can give it a try in the pool first with our Bubble Maker Experience.  This course allows you to slowly descend into the shallow end and practice your breathing techniques. Once you are comfortable, you then slowly swim to the deep end of the pool to practice a few diving skills, to make you feel more confident in the water, and a few games to learn how to control your movements underwater.

The next option is a Discover Scuba Experience which combines the confined water training in the pool with your first instructor supervised ocean dives. Going into your first ocean dives you will have the skills to know how to keep calm and comfortable while enjoying the amazing aquatic world around you.

If you are comfortable in the water and just cannot wait to swim with the fish, you can jump right in with Island Divers Hawaii Intro Dives. We teach you the few intro skills like clearing your mask, recovering your regulator, and clearing your regulator right there on the anchor line before you descend for your first amazing instructor supervised 20 minute dive!  After you return to the boat and have a snack, you can jump back in with your instructor and enjoy another dive without worrying about any skill training you accomplished on the first dive; it’s just fun diving from there!

Now you are ready and you know exactly what you have been missing!  So on to your certification and here at Island Divers Hawaii we have the best price on the island for your Open Water Certification, only $195!  If you’re looking for more private classes on your own time, we offer this any day of the week for a competitive price of $495.  If you complete a Discover Scuba Dive Experience with us, you can give us only two more days of your time and we can make you a certified diver for only $395!  You can see Island Divers Hawaii offers many options tailored to what works best for you.  We want to give you every opportunity to enjoy one of the best experiences on Earth!

Call us and start diving today.

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A private charter with friends at Koko Craters

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Sometimes it is good to be the boss. On Sundays we do the three tank dive charter, so the Sea Fox is often at the dock by 3pm. Okay, time to take out a couple of new friends and awesome people that we just spent a week hanging out with in Argentina. CJ and Paula got married there last month – grats again! Allll right, time for a private charter! Coti isn’t certified yet, so we did a shallow dive at Koko Craters and she did great. CJ, her brand new brother in law, made her feel very comfortable, and me, Andy, and Paula dove with them for the first half of the dive then went off exploring the rest of the dive site. Great dive, great viz, and afterwards we did a little early season whale watching and scored! Great day, and thanks for coming out!

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Loading the Sea Hound getting ready to depart for the 100ft whole. I was the last one to arrive. I got everyone to wait by promising beer. (It helps that I’m the boss).

Hawaii Scuba University Fun Dive at 100ft hole

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Hawaii Scuba University is a professional diving school associated with Island Divers.  Alumni and current students get together once a month just for a fun dive.  We try and go to spots that are more challenging, dove less often, and where new dive instructors and dive master may have not yet been since they have been doing most of their training as or with students.  This month we hit the 100ft hole.  A small dive site in 85ft of water (thus the name of course) that is somewhat isolated from other reefs.  Local lore has it that this location used to be a fishing spot reserved for the Ali’i (chief/king).

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