Spotted: Monk Seal at Spitting Caves

We had a great group of certified divers for our afternoon dives. All 8 of the divers were excited to get into the water and see what the afternoon sunshine would bring us under the waves.

At our first dive site, Angler’s Reef, divers got to brush up on their skills, since some of them had been out of the water for a while. We got to explore some really cool reef that was full of eels and urchins.

Throughout the dive, each one of the divers got to see some cool marine life and explore one of the shallower reefs in the Maunalua Bay area.

Just before we surfaced, we spotted a huge moray eel which was a great way to end our first dive!

During our surface interval, we enjoying some of the warm afternoon sun in the bay and decided that our next dive would be a drift along spitting caves. This was the first time for many of our divers to this particular site.

At Spitting Caves, we experienced a bit of surge on the surface, but it wasn’t anything that our divers couldn’t handle. After our negative buoyancy entry, divers got to see some awesome marine life along the wall.

We were even lucky enough to spot a monk seal! Its the beginning of the monk seal season here in Oahu and we were lucky enough to see one towards the end of our dive.

After about 40 minutes, we surfaced and made our way back to the boat. All of the divers were pumped up about the great diving and were glad that they chose to come out on the Sea Fox for a great afternoon of Hawaii diving!

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

Crew: Marnie (Instructor), Max (Crew), Joe (Captain)

Conditions: Slight surge

Dive Profile: Angler’s Reef max depth 43ft, 76*F water temp, 36 minutes; Spitting Caves max depth 55ft, 76*F water temp, 40 minutes