Herding Sharks 6/10

Such a beautiful morning to be out on the southeast side of Oahu today. We had a larger group of divers today mostly with a group of divers from another company sharing the boat with us but plenty of room and a wonderful couple of dives. We headed to the LCU for the first dive and with little current and good visibility we all got down the line. There were a couple of white tip reef sharks under the wreck right as divers were getting down to the bottom. But as more divers got down the sharks decided to get out from under the wreck and swim about the area to find a more relaxing spot. We kept herding the sharks from one area of the site to another as the divers spread about the area. Soon the found themselves back under the wreck as most of the divers were heading back to the surface.  We also had a large, red frogfish on the wreck and large schools of goatfish and Heller barracuda swimming around the site. Right at the end of the dive we saw a spotted eagle ray cruise by as we made our way to the safety stop.

For the second dive we drifted Spitting Caves. It was a little choppy on the surface but we had excellent viz and a nice current to pull us along. There were turtles all over the reef from large ones resting in caves to little ones swimming about. There were also a few eels hiding in the reef as well and a few more frogfish and even a couple octopus.  It was a great relaxing dive among all the colorful reef fish.