Discovering SCUBA before Summer Ends! 8-27-2014

Visiting from the Mainland Logan, Austin, and their mother Anna decided to fit in a couple of SCUBA dives before school starts next Monday. Their journey began @ 0900 at IDH’s Hawaii Kai location. After a short intro video and a gear fitting the vacationing trio went to the Makai Research Pier for a confined water skills presentation and swim practice. After completing their skills with ease the trio returned to Hawaii Kai for lunch, filled with confidence.

Eager to document their adventure, they entered the water with a GoPro and a rental digital underwater camera. The first site on the agenda: Turtle Canyons. Despite the incoming swell, the divers were met with 50ft visibility, a mild current, and every moray eel in the neighborhood. Green morays, snowflake, dragon, and zebra. You name it and it was out there showing their teeth.

Next site for exploration: Koko Craters. Immediately off the mooring line, the divers came face to face with numerous turtles under the Little Buddha statue. Besides the turtles, the divers encountered spotted and blotched porcupine fish, a couple more morays, pincushion starfish, sergeant majors, and a devil scorpion fish.