Entries by Maxine Markert

Refreshing Open water Extravaganza 8/01

I started out this lovely Friday morning with two incredible refreshers, Jerry and Sandy we had a lovely time at Makai pier revamping our diving skills. After an hour at the pier we headed back for lunch and to meet up with the rest of their group, After Marlene, Megan, and Nick got all their […]

Saturday Morning Madness 6/14

We started out our day in 4 to 6 foot seas heading out to the Kahala barge current was strong heading to Koko head splendid visibility. After a 20 minute dive we surfaced and headed in to drop off some poor sick people, after we dropped off half the boat we went back out and […]

Night fun 6/9

On this wonderful starry night, we had excellent condition. We hoped in at the baby barge for a drift for the first dive and we made it all the way to New barge with a 30 minute dive. After doing a forty minute surface interval we hoped back in next to Anglers reef for an […]

Rays, Eels and Mating Helmet Conchs 5/31

Last day in May and we had some beautiful conditions today. Trying to tie up at Kahala Barge I ultimately decided the current was too strong. So I proceeded with our large group to jump in at the Shark cave to the west of the Baby barge. The moment we got in, Captain Joe and […]

Discovering Pa’a’awa 5/28

Maunalua Bay was good to us today, no swell, light current and hardly any wind. Best condition I could have asked for, for my two open water students Marissa and Katie. They were so natural in the water I thought they were certified excellent job today guys! Mark was working with four hilarious Discover scuba […]

Tinkering Tuesday 5-27

This blissful Hawaiian morning everyone was so ready to leave, that we left the dock at 8 am. I love the enthusiasm guys! We got out to the LCU for our first dive and Audrey and myself got to see a majestic spotted eagle ray swimming into the current gliding gracefully. After circling the wreck several […]

Memorable Three Tanker 5/25

On this very eventful morning we made it out to the Corsair, enjoying slack current and a large variety of fish. After a 20 minute dive we surfaced and enjoyed our hour long journey to the YO- 257, jumping in and then directly down to the San Pedro, I was fortunate enough to see a […]

Sea cave Entrance 5/23

Thank God for being close to  the equator Friday we had some of the best diving conditions possible. We started out our day with spinner dolphins following the boat out to the dive site. We dove the New barge with no wildlife to speak of but excellent visibility and the wreck is in prime condition. […]

Drifting the Barges 5/14

On this excellent Hawaiian morning we began our day with a ripping current, so we decided that we were going to drift barges. We started out at the shark cave at the baby barge and ended in shore of the New barge. The visibility was incredible 120 +, we had some massive turtles and some […]