An Afternoon in Waikiki (Nov9)

The morning started off a bit chilly for the three tanker, but divers were excited and ready to hop in the water for some great diving. We decided to head straight over to Waikiki and do both of our deep dives in that bay.

Or deepest dive, the Sea Tiger, we dropped down onto a rather large green sea turtle that was relaxing on the deck of the boat.

        

We explored all different parts of the boat and enjoyed the numberous swim throughs that we came across.

After our dive, we made our way back to the boat and enjoyed a nice drive in the Waikiki Bay for our surface interval. We then hopped back in the water and dropped down onto the YO-257 and San Pedro.

 

Over at the YO-257, divers got to explore this yard oiler at its best. We had almost no current which allowed us to swim between the two wrecks.

Have to watch out for that submarine!

  

Over at the San Pedro, we got to see the schools of fish that inhabit this wreck, which is broken in the middle section of the boat.

Our last dive was Spitting Caves, which had fantastic conditions as well. We drifted west along the wall with the reef on our right side. We explored all of the caves along the way and came across some rather large white tipped reef sharks.

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CREW: Marnie (instructor) Carlos (divemaster) Joe (captain) Lauren (crew)

CONDTIONS:85*F air, 81*F water, SE current in Waikiki, W current in Maunalua Bay

DIVE PROFILE: Sea Tiger: max depth 115ft,  dive time 36min, 100ft+ visibility

YO257/San Pedro: max depth 103ft, dive time 32min, 100+ft visibility

Spitting Caves: max depth 54ft, 30min dive time, 100ft+ visbility

MARINE LIFE: white tipped reef shark, viper eel, green sea turtle, moray eel, crown of thorns, baracudda