Fish Frenzy!!! (AUG5)

Such a small group this afternoon out on the Fox! It really made for a more personal experience for all of the divers and a really great time for the instructors! We had more great weather (surprise!) and some great conditions out on the water. We listened to a briefing from Captain Joe and set out into the bay for some diving.

We dropped down at Koko Crater right onto a turtle! I think we may have startled him a bit because once we hit the bottom, he took off straight to the surface. What a great way to start the dive! We continued exploring the back crater and then made our way to the Big Buddha statue to see what we could find.

We came across a rather large eel under the ledge, who loves to hang out in this area. There were tons of fish, from sergeant majors to saddle wrasse, and we got to swim through them all.

We came across this pincushion seastar, who had a tiny little crab on it! A pretty cool find under the reef ledge.

We turned the dive and made our way to the back crater and got to check out some of the cool statues that make up the reef ledge. I love this one, which is one of the seven dwarfs from snow white! I still can’t figure out which dwarf it is……

We also spotted this tiny little sea snake that was weaving his way in an out of the coral. I snapped an OK picture, but this little guy was only about 5 inches long. So cute!

We envetually made our way back onto the Sea Fox and enjoyed some snacks and good conversation. We made our way to the next site and were excited to see what we would encounter!

We were really lucky to drop down right ontop of this starfish, another great way to begin the dive! We made our way over to the reef edge and we encounter a massive amount of fish!

It was crazy how many different fish there were! We had a great time swimming through all of the schools of fish and got to snap a couple of really great shots of the divers! After we spent about 7 minutes or so exploring this area, we made our way down the reef edge to check out some other parts of the site.

We came across another eel, and this one was more curious then the others. He came right out and was very interested in the divers. It was quite cool to see him so intrigued, and I got a good shot of him coming out of the reef. However, that wasn’t even the coolest thing we saw!

We spotted this flounder swimming across the bottom. And we followed him along the bottom for the while and came across another just a few feet away! It was crazy how many that we came across at the site!

We made our way back aboard the ship and back into the marina with a new PADI Open Water Diver aboard. Congrats!

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CREW: Marnie (instructor) Max (instructor) Joe (captain) Alex (crew)

WEATHER CONDITIONS: 84*F, Sunny with a Breeze

DIVE PROFILES: Koko Crater: 28min bottom time, 40ft max depth, west current, surge, 81*F water temp

Pa’a’awa: 30min bottom time, 43ft max depth, west current, surge, 81*F water temp

MARINE LIFE: green sea turtle, flounder, pincushion seastar, wrasse, sergeant major, moray eel, seasnake, moorish idol