Ahh, we got to dive our beloved Spitting Caves today, a world – class dive site, in my opinion, and I’ve seen a lot of them!  That was our 2nd dive, a drift dive  – the usual on our advanced charters.  It was really fun today, as we were racing the outgoing tide, trying to get around the corner before the green marina/low tide water reached us.  Along the lava walls, caves, and canyons, we saw green sea turtles, cow fish, frog fish, lots of shoaling reef fish, and a big eagle ray who swam right under us! Love to watch those guys fly through the ocean!  Cara and Cat were working on their Advanced course, and Matt (lives and dives in Saskatchuan!), Andrew, also Canadian, plus Mike from New South Wales in Aussie land were out for fun. Good divers all around!   For our first dive, we moored up at Corsair, and the current was perfect – mild!!  Fun dive and nice viz, with shoals of fish and garden eels surrounded the downed airplane.  Thanks to all for safe diving,  larry and joe

It was a cloudy day today for our dives on the afternoon boat. We had a group of people from all over the world, most of which were from Brazil. We all joined together for some first time diving off the coast of Oahu.

At our first site, we stumbled upon tons of fish, from schools of triggerfish to Moorish idols. It was great to see so many different species around the ledges.

Of course we came across some familiar things all around the site, from the sunken statues to the helmet conchs.

I think the turtles were definatly a favorite of the group today, and we were graced with the presence of so many this afternoon!

We hopped in again at the west side of turtle canyons, ready to see some awesome coral life.

The first thing that we noticed, was the huge school of triggerfish that surrounded the boat upon our arrival.

As we swam around the site, we came across some cool micros like these nudibranch. Sometimes the coolest things are very small!

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CREW: Marnie (instructor) Manolo (instructor) Dave (instructor) Kendal (instructor) Greg (captain)

CONDTIONS: Cloudy, 88*F air, 82*F water, Slight breeze

DIVE PROFILES: Koko Crater: 40ft max depth, 26min dive time, 80ft visibility

Turtle Canyon: 38ft max depth, 32min dive time, 70ft visibility

MARINE LIFE: turtles, nudibranch, Moorish idol, butterfly fish, trumpetfish, triggerfish

It was a windy day this morning but we had some nice dives off the Sea Fox.  We tied up at Kahala Barge for the first dive and had a medium strength current as we got down the line and wonderful viz.  The wreck is a great site with large swim-thrus all over and fish life all around. Right away on the bottom we saw a spotted eagle ray off the wreck looking for food.  There were reef fish hiding all about the site, but soon it was time to surface and motor to the next site.

For the second dive we decided to do a nice relaxing dive and drifted Anglers Reef.  There were fish all about the reef with schools of goatfish and butterflyfish swimming around us.  We found eels hiding all over the reef as well including a large yellow margin morey and small stout moreys.  There were also horned helmet snails found throughout the dive and an octopus hiding in a small hole.  It was a wonderful morning and good way to start out the weekend.