yes they do! the eagle rays seem to love the ambiance of that great dive site. the LCU is a WWII style landing craft that flipped upside down while purposely being sunk as an artificial reef! they are always there, cruising around some invisible circuit. they fly in formation, and it is an inspiring sight! […]
yes they do, and they never fail to bring a smile to our divers. here in Hawaii we call them Honu. there are other species of turtles here in the islands, loggerheads, olive ridleys, hawksbills, and the giant leatherback. but these last four are usually only seen in deep waters. whereas the greens are everywhere, […]
Congrats to good friend and long time Island Diver Hawaii customer, Jon J., who logged in dives 100 and 101 !! many thanks to you for making my job easy and fun over the last few years!! dive 100 was Baby Barge, with 150 foot visibility and ripping current! it was one of those days […]
Wow, so many turtles today! We always see a fair amount of large Hawaiin green sea turtles, but lately we have been seeing lots of smaller and younger turtles. Sea Life Park does have a program where they hatch baby turtles and release them into the ocean over in Waimanalo. I was lucky enough to […]
NO, not that “getting wrecked!” that is not a good idea, especially underwater! I’m talking Wreck Specialty! and today Barb was getting wrecked with me on both the Kahala barge and the world famous YO 257 !! she did good on wreck dives 3/4, although rewinding that line in heavy current underwater takes practice!! kahala […]
SCUBA Divers in the world you must dive in Hawaii, which has spectacular diving adventures awaiting you! today we did the Kahala Barge in excellent conditions. mild current and great visibility helped us to find sharks, turtles, octopus, big moray eels, as well as a huge peacock flounder sitting (?) right on the deck!! Dr. Joe and […]
i think that’s what we should call Sea Cave and Spitting Cave, two of our dive sites on the Portlock – Hanauma Bay wall. Why? because everyone comes back smiling from those dives – they really are fantastic, spectacular, enthralling dives. before we hit the wall, we did tie up at Baby Barge, and there […]
so said Pablo Picasso. He must have been a scuba diver! not a lot of Cubism down below, but when you scuba dive a dive site like Turtle Canyons, you really feel someone or something has a real imagination!! the beauty and intricacy of a single coral head is just profound! the shapes and colors, […]
I love to find those pancake flat peacock flounders that slide around on the sand at Koko Craters. I have seen them range in size from the size of a dinner plate at Maxine’s house (huge) down to the size of a good old american quarter! great example of evolution and adaptability! I like pointing […]
well, i’m not really Tarzan (except occasionally in my dreams), but sometimes when we dive Koko Craters there are so many big green hawaiin sea turtles there, that it’s like Tarzan released a stampede of turtles and we’re swimming for our lives! fortunately the turtles generally move pretty slow so they are rather easy to avoid. […]