Archive for year: 2015

Looking like giant caterpillar-worms the Spikey Sea Cucumber always gets some amazed looks by divers who have never seen one. At a foot of two in length they are reddish-brown in color, tubular in shape, and (my favorite part) covered in soft spikes! They don’t really do much spike-wise, well who knows how the soft spike evolved?  In any case they look impressive!!  Often the belly will have a small grouping of various tiny micro critters – crabs usually.  First dive at the Landing Craft not only had the aforementioned, we also got to see an eagle ray, a cruising whitetip shark which was chased and nipped by a great barracuda (according to instructor Jeremy!) as well as schools of reef fish.  2nd jump was a drift of Fantasy Reef and we got surrounded by giant turtles, spotted another shark, and joyfully cruised through the volcanic topography of this beautiful spot.  Richard and Dean were working their Advanced – great job.  Thanks to all for safe diving,  Larry, Kendal

Landing Craft  90 ft   100 viz   35 min

fantasy reef     52 ft     110 viz   45 min

Today was an amazing day out on the water at Maunalua Bay! The sun was shinning bright and the divers smiles were shinning brighter. We had a few certified divers on the boat this afternoon, one diver Discovering Scuba Diving for the first time, some students working towards their Open Water Certification and even one student working on his Advanced Open Water.  The first dive site we went to was Koko Craters. We dropped down to 37 feet by the little Buddha statue to start our dive. After swimming over to the big Buddha statue we found a couple turtles sleeping underneath the ledge! We also saw a group of Sergeant major fish swimming around by the statue. We kept cruising along running into a few more turtles during the dive and found a couple moray eels in the reef. After 40 minutes we headed back up to the boat.   After hanging  out in the sun for a short surface interval we headed over to Turtle Canyons for our second  dive. Our maximum depth on this dive was 33  feet. We  dropped down on the reef and were immediately greeted by a large Spotted Moray Eel. We went for a 38 minute dive finding quite a few more eels, a devil scorpion fish, a few porcupine fish, and of course the Humuhumunukunukuapua’a! Overall it was an excellent day both on top of the water and underneath! Thanks to everyone for coming out and see you next time! Happy diving!

 

    

Crew: Captain Joe, Instructor Sarah, Instructor Kevin, Instructor Larry, Crew Paige

Conditions: Water Temp 79 degrees Fahrenheit, visibility 60+ feet

Today was one of those perfect days to be scuba diving on Oahu. We had a small group of divers as we headed out this morning off the Sea Fox. We got out to the LCU for the first dive but the current was real strong so we decided on doing a barge drift.  With the right current and good divers we can see 3 different wrecks on one dive. There were fish all around the LCU and even a spotted eagle ray cruising by the site. As we made our way to New Barge we found a white tip reef shark hanging out on the bottom. For the final wreck we made it to Baby Barge where we found a couple green sea turtles.

For the second dive we dove Fantasy Reef and again had great conditions. There was a good 100+ ft visibility and a light current as we swam around the site.  There were a few turtles resting on the bottom and fish everywhere. We had a nice dive and even found a few eels hiding out and a couple large puffer fish swimming about. It was a great start to the week.