Mary Christensen, Author at Island Divers Hawaii https://www.oahuscubadiving.com/author/mary/ Tue, 16 May 2017 07:38:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 60298644 Fantastic Mother’s Day Dives! 5/14 https://www.oahuscubadiving.com/2017/05/14/fantastic-mothers-day-dives-514/ Mon, 15 May 2017 07:38:30 +0000 https://www.oahuscubadiving.com/?p=14302 The day started out with some beautiful blue skies here on Maunalua Bay.  We had a full boat, lots of students and some down right happy divers.  Baby Barge was our first site of the day.  We had some current today but all of our divers were up for the challenge.  We were visited by […]

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]]> 14302 Amazing 3 Tanker!! 4/23 https://www.oahuscubadiving.com/2017/04/23/amazing-3-tanker-423/ Mon, 24 Apr 2017 06:35:15 +0000 https://www.oahuscubadiving.com/?p=14175 The sun was out all morning, the winds were light and the waves were down.  This was the makings for a perfect day of diving.  We headed to Kahala Barge as our first dive today.  This was super fun for some of our visiting tech divers, the got to make their way through the wreck. […]

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]]> 14175 Double Drifting Monday!! 4/18 AM https://www.oahuscubadiving.com/2017/04/17/double-drifting-monday-418/ Tue, 18 Apr 2017 09:22:35 +0000 https://www.oahuscubadiving.com/?p=14156 It was a blustery start to the day today but the weather cleared quickly as the dive boat headed out to the sites.  We drifted off the LCU wreck today and headed west after that.  The barracuda were out like crazy today, hundreds of them. We explored parts of the ocean floor that we seldom […]

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]]> 14156 Amazing Monday!! AM 4/10 https://www.oahuscubadiving.com/2017/04/10/amazing-monday-410/ Tue, 11 Apr 2017 05:51:36 +0000 https://www.oahuscubadiving.com/?p=14133 The sun was shining and the divers ready to take on the morning dives.  We started with a trip to the Corsair but the current was a bit strong.  As divers do we changed up our plan and headed to Baby Barge. On the way there the last of the whales gave us a lovely […]

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]]> 14133 Shark, Rays, Eels, Oh My Monday! AM 1/30 https://www.oahuscubadiving.com/2017/01/30/shark-rays-eels-oh-monday-130/ Tue, 31 Jan 2017 06:21:51 +0000 https://www.oahuscubadiving.com/?p=13968 Yan and Si came out for an amazing dive today.  They braved the winds we had this morning and went to LCU and Fantasy Reef today. With the over 100 feet of visibility we were all happy just coming down the lines in the slight current.  The schooling barracuda were there and boy were they […]

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]]> 13968 Magical Monday!! https://www.oahuscubadiving.com/2017/01/23/magical-monday/ Tue, 24 Jan 2017 08:58:15 +0000 https://www.oahuscubadiving.com/?p=13962 The winds had died down from the weekend and we pulled out of the marina heading to LCU.  The water was clear and the viability was amazing.  There was a slight current but it was no challenge for our set of fantastic divers.  As we dropped on the wreck we were met but a huge […]

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]]> 13962 Whales are Back!!!! 11/07 am dive https://www.oahuscubadiving.com/2016/11/07/whales-back-1107-dive/ Tue, 08 Nov 2016 08:17:06 +0000 https://www.oahuscubadiving.com/?p=13648 The water was glassy and clear this Monday morning.  A beautiful day for a dive, always nice with winter here and we get these conditions.  The first thing we saw as we dropped down on LCU was a very pregnant white tip reef shark.  She really wanted nothing to do with us but she didn’t […]

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]]> 13648 Got Eagle Rays?? 11/02 AM dive https://www.oahuscubadiving.com/2016/11/02/got-eagle-rays-1102-dive/ Thu, 03 Nov 2016 08:54:22 +0000 https://www.oahuscubadiving.com/?p=13620 LCU is always amazing for sea life and today was no different.  We dropped down and right off the bat we saw 8 eagle rays!!  So exciting to see so many at once.  We took a look under the wreck then out the other side.  When we were exploring the z blocks and culvert pipes […]

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]]> 13620 Super Saturday at LCU and Spitting Caves! 10/29 AM https://www.oahuscubadiving.com/2016/10/29/super-saturday-lcu-spitting-caves-1029/ Sun, 30 Oct 2016 07:36:44 +0000 https://www.oahuscubadiving.com/?p=13593 The skies were grey and threatening rain but we made it away from the dock before that happened.  The group was intimate which always makes for a fun boat.  LCU as always was a crowd pleaser.  Dropping in on the wreck there was a light current but at the bottom was fantastic.  We were visited […]

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]]> 13593 Diving and a Booby!! 8/10 AM dives https://www.oahuscubadiving.com/2016/10/08/diving-booby-810-dives/ Sun, 09 Oct 2016 06:49:40 +0000 https://www.oahuscubadiving.com/?p=13570 Diving on Saturday morning is the perfect start to a weekend.  We had light trade winds and our seas were calm.  Greeted at New Barge with 150+ feet of visibility.  Ed was doing his PADI Wreck Spec on this dive so he was laying line inside the wreck on this dive.  The rest of us […]

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