Archive for year: 2016

haha, that’s an easy one for serious divers.  Diver Propulsion Vehicle, and we’re not talking about fins here!  fun day, as always, on the boat today, as instructor David was teaching a DPV course.  these little underwater scooters are awesome, fun, and great in a current!  and always fun to watch them zoom around, like a kid on a bike.  all divers should try it sometime!  baby barge was great viz and medium current, so it took some work to get down to the shark cave, but it was worth it!  huge turtle in the cave, eels along the way. cruising back to the wreck we saw schools of reef fish, beautiful hard corals, and more turtles!  whew!  2nd jump was a drift of Fantasy reef, home of infinite possibilities.  meaning there is some much to see, and such a variety.  you’ll know what you will see for day to day.  great barracuda, eagle rays, huge turtles, myriad eels, octopus. you get the picture!  thanks to all for safe diving!  larry, kendal, joe, alex, david

baby barge 80 ft  40 min

fantasy        52 ft   50 min

Friday morning was a gorgeous day on the water in Oahu! With a bright rainbow hanging over the island to start the morning I knew it was going to be a good one. The first dive site we headed to was LCU. With visibility of 150+ feet we couldn’t wait to get in the water. Swimming around the upside-down landing craft we were greeted by 9 spotted eagle rays! 9! So awesome! A sea turtle also cruised by to say hello. We found a couple big moray eels underneath the cement blocks surrounding the wreck. After a nice 30 minute dive to 85 feet we headed back up to the boat. For second dive we headed over to the wall to do Sea Cave! An amazing dive site with a big cave that you can swim in and around before drifting along the wall. Residents inside the cave this particular day included a couple sea turtles, many many many nudibranches, and a white tip reef shark! We spotted a couple more moray eels along the wall while drifting before headed back up. Over all it was an awesome day of diving with great conditions and a fun group of divers. Hope to see everyone back again soon!

Crew: Captain Joe, Instructor Sarah, Crew Maddie

Today was a windy but lovely day out on the water in Hawaii. We had a small group of four divers on the sea fox this afternoon. One student finishing up his open water certification course and three certified divers. The first dive site we went to was Anglers Reef. With a maximum depth of 45 feet we had a nice long 40 minute dive. There were lots of cute little reef fish swimming with us the whole dive. We also found quite a few moray eels, two of which were the giant yellow margin morays! It was a great dive with great visibility! For our second dive we headed over to Koko craters to hang out with the sea turtles! We swam with somewhere around 10 turtles this afternoon at koko craters! We also saw a porcupine puffer fish! So cute! And of course the blue dragon nudibranches were around, cool little guys. Overall it was a great day of diving with some great divers. Congratulations to Amanda and Spencer on their one year anniversary! And of course congrats to Charles for completing his PADI Open Water Certification! Welcome to the club! See you out on the boat again soon!

Crew: Captain Joe, Instructor Sarah, Crew Mandy

we dive out of Hawaii Kai, south shore Oahu, and when the regular trades are down, or mild, we have an option most dive companies on Oahu do not!  and that is the incredible number of dive sites on the wall outside of world famous Marine Park, Hanauma Bay!  we have at least 5 different dive sites there, and they all offer something unique.  today we did Palea Point, the eastern tip of the bay.  dropping in for a drift going east to west, we start out with small wall and huge bolder piles. cruising east, we see a huge garden of colorful hard corals, fronting a deep canyon.  moving along we encounter huge, dramatic walls, beautifully cut and shaped by the ocean over centuries, containing small caves, home to sharks and turtles.  throughout the dive there are large schools of various reef fish surrounding us, and as we drift along we reach the point of the bay, and gaze out into the deep blue, looking for those whales that sing so loudly!  thanks to all for safe diving!  larry, alex, and admiral kendal