Wet 'n Wild on Baby Barge and Angler's - May 2 - Island Divers Hawaii

We were 7 divers today on the morning Sea Fox. Lew, Steve, and Rill, some local club divers who happen to join us for some dives at least once a month. And a few visitors from Texas, Tom, Monte, and Amy. Tom was diving with some sweet Nitrox enriched air and got some extra time.

Just a reminder to all you out there that haven’t taken the EANx Nitrox PADI Specialty Course yet. Think off all the extra time you could be spending underwater at our beautiful dive sites.

Our first dive took us down to Baby Barge where we checked out all the wreck’s inhabitants including some great big Green Sea Turtles and tons of Blue Dragon Nudibranch. I even managed to catch a couple hard at work in the act of mating. Fun Fact: Nudibranch contain both male and female sex organs. Some nudi species even have a special regrowing ‘detatchable’ penis which detatches and after mating and then regrows, fascinating!

Our next dip was a drift on Angler’s Ledge. We cruised along with the current and explored the ledge. We found all kinds of cool animals. A great big morray, a tiny little cleaner shrimp on the underside of a cushion star, and a Day Octopus peering out from inside his lair. When the group ran low on air we hopped back onto the Fox and headed to dry land.

Great day dudes! See ya next time!

-Pete