Archive for month: June, 2016

The upside down LCU sits in around 85-90 feet of water.  When it was sunk it flipped over, laying on it’s wheel house on the sandy bottom of the sea.  This affords us a very interesting daytime prospective of seeing the nocturnal fish that dwell there.  We were met by a mild current but amazingly clear water.  The eagle rays were circling as we decended to our site.  As the group was down there was a huge green sea turtle doing a dive on the wreck also.  He became more interested in the divers for awhile then made his way off the wreck.  We also got to see a huge (300-400) schooling barracudas.  That was quite a sight.

Spitting caves is one of our favorite dive sights and the conditions were perfect to see the sights.  So many things to mention on this dive, eagle ray, sharks, so many turtles, eels, octopus, scorpion devil fish, The group was happy to move along slowly and explore all the small caves and wall on the way.  We don’t often see the eagle rays there but a very mature adult one swam right by us today.  All of our photographers had more subjects than they could ever hope for.  This was also a fantastic setting for Audrey and Ben, they completed their PADI Dive Master Course!!  Both put so much hard work into their training and we are all very proud of them!

As always on the boat we cleaned up all the gear and were refreshed with hot moist minty towels from the crew to freshen up with!

Dive Sites:  LCU 85-90 feet, Viz 100+, Wreck dive

Spitting Caves:  50 foot max depth, 85 feet of Viz , Drift dive

Awesome Divers:  Audrey, Ben, Courtnie, David, Andrea, Hanea, Carrisa, Sarah and of course the Amazing Sheila!

Amazing Dive Staff:  Captain Joe, Dive Instructor Mary, Crew Marissa.

The water was still relatively calm as we made our way out into Moanalua Bay for our afternoon dives. We had a few people completing their Open Water certification, a few working on the Advanced certification, and some certified divers. Conditions were lovely and we were able to head out to Fantasy Reef (max depth 55ft) for our first dive. We stumbled upon an octopus right at the base of the mooring, which was a great way to start out our dive. As we swam along, we ran into multiple turtles and little eels. One group even saw an eagle ray! The shark cave didn’t disappoint: there was a small whitetip reef shark trying to get comfortable for an afternoon nap.

Our second dive site was Turtle Canyon. The current was a little strong, but there were hundred and hundreds of little gold ring surgeonfish in a mating aggregation. The water looked so dark as the fish swarmed. We found a few little nudibranchs, a small hawaiian green sea turtle, and even an octopus!! The best part of the dive for me was swimming through the massive gold ring surgeonfish aggregations. It was so great to have these little fish so close to us and not caring that we were there trying to swim along. Congrats to the Todorinovs who are now Open Water divers!

Amazing staff: Capt Joe, Inst. Chelsea, Larry, and Jim