Mary Christensen

Skimmen’s, Corsair, Sea Cave…What a beautiful Day! Plus 1!

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It was a blue skied beautiful January morning with light winds.  What an amazing day to go diving.  Our first stop was Skimmen’s Reef.  What a rare treat for us and now we got to do it two days in a row!!  Great viz, nice drift.  So many fish to see yet again today.  We are very lucky that we got to do this dive again.  One of our favorites.

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Corsair

Next stop was the Corsair.  One of our beloved dive sites out of Hawaii Kai.  It’s a 1948 Corsair plane that is the only natural wreck of it’s type on the island.  We had several people from out of country on the boat today and this was on their bucket list of dives…..CHECK!  So many happy people!

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Sea Cave was absent of sharks today but it was still awesome inside.  Nothing is quite like the reverb feeling you get inside the cave.  As the waves crash in over head you can feel it with your full body.  Lots of interesting things to see inside and as we drifted we were joined by so many turtles.  We inspected to small caves and walls on the drift as we floated along.

On the way is was our PLUS One!  We were doing our routine trip in, cleaning gear, breaking down, hot towels for guests, pineapple when we spotted a young man in distress.  Right on que our team jumped into action and were able to rescue him in a pretty dicey situation.  It’s what we do out there.  We take care of everyone.  Within minutes we had him on the boat.  He was a bit shaken up but he was safe.  Could not be prouder to be part of this team.

It was an amazing day at sea!

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Mary Christensen

Special Day for AM Charter….Skimmens!

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The west winds were howling out this morning which made our dive choices different than normal.  Our first drop today was Skimmen’s.  This is a dive site to the east and a deeper drift dive.  What a great time and OH so many fish to see.  Found a pretty good sized white tip reef shark and also a playful octopus.  We swam through the arches and explored all the places we rarely get to see.  What an exciting dive morning.

Our next site was called Plaeya Point…also a dive site we rarely get to dive and equally as exciting.  We dropped in and drifted east.  There was just so much to see there and millions of reef fish.  The highlight of the dive was the HUGE southern stingray.  It came around a rock out cropping and almost ran right into us.  What a perfect morning with a double drift dive.  Always so much fun to explore all our dive sites!!

 

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Mary Christensen

Tuesday’s perfect dives 1/5

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The skies were clear and the waters calm.  A great day to visit baby barge and spitting caves.  I think the word for the day was TURTLES!  We were greeted with them from the second the boat got tied up until we did our last safety stop of the day.  Everyone had such a great time on the boat today.  Always such a pleasure when we get to see it all!!!

 

Baby barge:  max depth 85 feet.  Viz 100 feet

Spitting caves:  max depth 50 feet, Viz 100 feet.

Jeremy Sanders-Lewis

Sunday Seal Day

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Today our three tank dive charter started out at Kahala Barge (95ft). With a good long swim through, eels and some training for students who where completing their AOW and Deep Specialty,our first dive was a great start to the day.

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Our second dive of the day was at Spitting Cave (45ft) and the this dive gave us white tip reef sharks, frog fish, turtles and the biggest surprise of the day, Monk Seal!

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And for the last dive of the day we charged into Sea Cave (50ft).

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Jeremy Sanders-Lewis

Saturday dive and chill.

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Great relaxing and calm couple of dives were had on this beautiful 2nd day of the new year. We headed out to the LCU (95ft) for the first dive where Eagle Rays, eels and octopus were there to occupy us while we dove with 100+ft of viz. LRG_DSC02371LRG_DSC02377LRG_DSC02379

For our second dive and with currents way down we moored up to Fantasy Reef (55ft). There the Hawaiian Green Sea turtles and Eels were our companions. LRG_DSC02389LRG_DSC02406LRG_DSC02399LRG_DSC02426

Larry Hogan

LAST DIVE ? 31 dec.

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yes, last dive. . .  of 2015!  and it was spectacular!  winds were down, and everyone wanted to do Sea Cave, an incredible, world-class drift dive on the wall outside Hanauma Bay!  it is an old lava tube, which we enter at a depth of around 50 feet. the entrance is a large tunnel that opens up into a huge cave, 200 feet to the back.  there is also a large opening at the surface, so it is not a true cave, and this opening lets in some extremely dramatic lighting!  which allows us to see the sharks and turtles, and occasional monk seal, hanging out inside!  2nd dive was another drift.  this was on the other side of Hanauma bay, the old crater broken into by the sea.  Palea point has dramatic walls, with caves and canyons, and also more sharks and turtles!  lots of reef fish, and beautiful coral make this another special dive that we do out here in Oahu!  thanks to all for safe diving!  larry, kevin, paul, kendal

sea cave    50 ft     50 min   150 viz

palea 50 ft   50 min   150 viz

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