Historic Corsair and Fantasy Reef 7/20 AM

In 1946 the Corsair plane went down on a training mission and sits on the floor of the sea. This is where we started our dive day today. This wreck is always highly requested so we get out there quite often. It sits at 107 feet at the sand, surrounded by the graceful garden eels swaying with the water movement. The visibility was excellent today at 100+ feet and the current was very light. There is a resident green moray eel that lives there that was quite active today. Swam out of the wing towards the garden eels then back again, poking its head out and inspecting all the divers. Also there were two scorpion leaf fish there, one purple and one black that were moving around quite a bit under the tail section. The divers taking many pictures. This was a bucket list item for one of our divers and boy was he happy to put that check on the list. Caitlin and Khaled doing their PADI Enriched air class, got to spend extra time at the site.

Corsair Wreck

Scorpion Leaf Fish

Corsair Wreck

Front view Corsair Wreck

Yellow Margin Moray

Free Swimming Yellow Margin

With a slight easterly current we did our drift dive at the ever popular Fantasy Reef. Surrounded by large Hawaiian Green Sea Turtles we drifted slowly. The first small cave we looked in had a small white tip reef shark in it. Through the swim thrus and always having the dance of all the reef fish around. So many things to see on the way. Today, I think I saw some of the largest turtles that I have seen on the south shore dive sites. Poking our heads under the last large overhang on the main reef got to enjoy to rather large 5-6 ft white tip reef sharks hanging out with a turtle. Pretty exciting for all the picture takers. This was a very leisurely dive for all. Back on the boat on the way in with Marissa provided us with hot minty towels to freshen up with. Another awesome dive day here.