Today we dove Koko Crater, max depth 38ft, and Turtle Canyon, max depth 40ft. Both sites provided great interactions with Hawaiian green sea turtles, Emory eels, and giant helmet conch shells. These dives also gave our divemaster candidates from Hawaii Scuba University the opportunity to assist open water students Michael and Hung in completing their certification dives. Congratulations Michael and Hung in becoming our newest certified divers.
What a morning for diving! Boarding the Sea Fox today all the divers were having a discussion on what they wanted to do and came to agreement that it was going to be a TWO Drift kind of Day. Spitting Cave’s, max depth 55 feet, always delivers. It was filled with all kinds of ocean life today. Pretty sure we found most of the Hawaiian green sea turtles today, eels, always sharks and even a baby octopus came out to greet us.
Fantasy reef, max depth 55 feet, was spectacular. 200+ viz and we found all the rest of the turtles in the sea. The current was perfect for the drift today and moved us right along. There was a huge eagle ray that joined our dive for about a third of the way. Found the swim thru’s, and just got to enjoy the peace that the Pacific offers us. Everyone was so stoked about the dive they were ready to do another!!!
The morning after a super moon gave us a great chance to get back into the water. Our dives today took us to Baby Barge, max depth 85ft, and Anglers Reef, max depth 50ft, where we were greeted by octopus, Emory eels, and a giant trident trumpet. Today was also had a great chance for a couple of dive master candidate’s to join us from Hawaii Scuba University for some excellent training. All in all a great day.
always such a treat to see the rare and endangered Hawaii Monk Seal while diving! We have some great sites for diving with them 15 minutes from our dock, particularly Spitting Cave, as they seem to love the canyons and small caves that dot that site on the wall outside Hanauma bay. we also saw several sharks, large green hawaiin sea turtles, octopus, shoals of reef fish, as well as the spectacular topography of the wall created by lava and shaped by the sea. that was our second dive, and we drifted it, as conditions were perfect, mild current and crystal clear, blue water!! for our first dive we moored up at Baby Barge, where we had good viz and mild current. checked out the shark cave, which had a nice whitetip shark, cruised up the ledge to the barge, where we saw huge green sea turtles surfacing for air and relaxing on the bottom. great day of diving, thanks to all for safe diving! larry, sarah, joe
baby barge 80 ft 120 viz 35 min.
spitting cave 52 ft 200 viz 45 min
WOW! WOW! WOW! Love doing night dives here. Our first dive was a drift on Fantasy Reef and it was Amazing! The current was a nice slow pace and we lazily drifted along. Turtles and Eels out, and the cross over at dusk is unreal. It’s like a changing of the guard that you get to witness. Made the swim thru’s and poked along the reef, everyone unwinding after a long day and no better way to do it than a night dive.
Second dive was to Turtle Canyon and what a difference an hour makes. Myself, Jonathan and Nicole dropped in first to finish up the last part of the PADI Night Diver Specialty. The rest of the group, Scott, Louis, Hollis, Matt, Steven and Luke joined us and we all moved west on the reef. It was fantastic tonight. The moon lit up the reef along with our lights. Scorpion Leaf fish, Eels, and the three Spanish Dancers. The were doing their amazing dance (swimming) and we all just got to watch. It was mesmerizing. So lucky that we got to witness all the beauty of the night.
Fantasy Reef, max depth 55 feet
Turtle Canyon, max depth 37 feet
Boarding the Sea Fox this morning the group was all a buzz. The excitement of a double wreck dive was electric in the air. We had Jack, Mi Sou and Jason doing their PADI Enriched Air specialties today. Made our wreck dives even longer. LCU was our first drop. What a Morning! Arriving at the dive site we could see the LCU Wreck from the dive boat. The dive was beautiful. Had a first on this dive too….always on the look out for things I have not seen before….A Long Nose Butterfly Fish that was COMPLETELY Black!!! Love the Ocean.
Next stop was Baby Barge. Again we couldn’t ask for nicer conditions. Steven, Luke, Mi Sou, Jason, Jack, Bill, Nicole, Jonathan, Kelly, Richard, Catherine and Chul all had an amazing time. We got to explore the shark cave, checked out the wreck and even the cave that sits right under the wreck. This dive site has so much to offer. Loads of turtles, eels and tons of reef fish everywhere. At the end of the dive we all got to see a rather large Octopus that was happy to hang out with everyone for a bit and show us all his color and texture changing ability. What an epic morning dive trip we had. Congratulations to Jonathan for completing his PADI Advanced Open Water Certification today!!
LCU Max Depth, 95 feet
Baby Barge Max Depth 85 feet
The clouds cleared and we had a beautiful start to our morning dives. The boat was electric with excitement about dropping down on New Barge. The current was a little strong but that didn’t bother any of us. While Jonathan worked on his PADI Wreck Spec the rest of the dive crew explored the wreck, inside and out.
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Our second dive of the day started at Fish Garden and ended at Spitting Caves. The current pulled us along and a nice lazy pace. Sharks, Eels, Turtles and Frog Fish were a few of the featured marine life we got to encounter. Nicole and Jonathan worked on their PADI Drift Spec. while Luke, Byron, Jack, Sean and Tatsuya all enjoyed the sites. At the very end of the dive we got to see the well camouflaged frog fish was spotted. Most had never seen one before! All our photographers got amazing shots!! Wonderful day of Diving today!!!
Sharks!! Turtles!! Eels!! Octopus!! We got to see it all today on both dives on the AM Fox Charter. Baby Barge is always a wonderful wreck to dive. Again we were not disappointed. The turtles came out to play and all my photographers filled the cards up with pictures. Jon did the first part of his PADI Wreck Specialty and did an awesome job.
We did our drift dive on Spitting Caves. Each part of the dive was a new site to see. In the caves we got to be up close and personal to the sharks. The turtles were all about the reef, we must have seen at least a dozen including the baby turtle we have been spotting so often. Eels were playfully hiding in the cracks of the wall and a small octopus came out to see us all. So much wildlife today as always. When we got back on the boat Steven stated it was one of the best dives ever. Nicole, Jonathan, Byron, Jason, Mi Sou, Luke and Tatsuya all were so excited when we got back on the boat. Most of them are diving with me again this week!! What an exciting day on the Sea Fox.
Baby Barge, Max depth 85 feet
Spitting Caves, Max depth 50 feet
The Corsair is such a popular airplane wreck dive in Hawaii. 10 minutes from our dock, it never fails to amaze and please the divers that make it down to the 107 foot deep dive site! Surrounded by garden eels and schools of colorful fish, and inhabited by large eels, lobsters, and octopus, there is plenty of marine life to satisfy all divers. Even on it’s own, it is simply amazing to see a plane with the tail and propeller still attached, and with a wing lying in the sand next to the fuselage, and the windscreen and instrument panel. It is quite breathtaking! It’s best done on a 32 blend of nitrox as then you can stay after all the air divers have to ascend and really look around and see all the cool stuff! 2nd jump was a drift of our beloved Fantasy reef with incredible topography, sharks, turtles, octopus, eels, hard corals, and loads of fish! Thanks to all for safe diving!! Larry, Joe, Kelsea
corsair 107 feet viz 150 feet 30 min
fantasy 52 feet viz 200 feet 50 minutes
A rare treat we had today getting to two of our more advanced dive spots for the PM Charter on the Sea Fox! Steven, Luke, Limer, Miguel, Amy and Dianne were all certified divers so we got to do some special dives. It was nice and sunny out today and just light trade winds coming in. Beautiful day for diving. Dropped in on Fantasy Reef, max depth 55 feet, and made our way to the first swim through. There was a little surge around but still plenty to see there. Turtles, sharks, eels and reef fish. It was a great dive exploring the sights.
Since we were all certified divers and everyone felt confident we decided to drift on the second dive. Spitting Caves, max depth was 50 feet, was our next site. The current picked us up and we floated along and a nice pace. Exploring all the nooks and crannies along the way. Before we came up we found the biggest frog fish ever! We also got to see the baby turtle on the way, which is always a treat. This was such a nice change of pace for us, really uplifted the day.
