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5/26 Now is the Time to Discover Scuba Diving

May 27, 2014/in Dive Reports/by Kellan Bernhardt

Monday – I jump into the pool with Chris, Mike, Tj, Charlie, and Jenna and we go over some skills that we need to dive for the first time. From there we’re joined by Alex, Manny, Tim Brenton and Nick. We go out to the first dive site: Pa’awa. We see some eels, some fish, and an octpus! Also a zebra shrimp! From there we go to koko’s and see some turtles. Always a good place to see turtles, Koko’s. If you’re thinking of going diving, but you’re not certified, that’s okay. Our DSD program will let you experience diving TODAY, without the hassle or expense of getting certified. DO IT. DO IT NOW.

Cruising along.

You like my snake impression?

Octopus

Mr. Morray barging his way through

Weather conditions: sunny, slight breeze
Dive Sites: Pa’awa, Koko Crater
Dive Conditions: limited surge, Koko Current, 60ft viz
Marine Life Observed: Octopus, nudibranchs, frog fish, Zebra Shrimp, Green sea turtles.
Staff: Capt Joe, Max, Pete, Kellan

SHARKS AND TURTLES ! 26 May

May 26, 2014/in Dive Reports/by Larry Hogan

who doesn’t like sharks and turtles? no one on the Fox today! and a great dive day for finding both! We moored up at Baby Barge and meandered down to the shark cave, which had been taken over by jolly green giant hawain sea turtles! on our way to the wreck a huge moray eel and an octopus eyeballed us from there respective hidey holes. couldn’t find the frogfish today, but we found several more huge turtles when we got there! current was moving well, so we decided to drift spitting caves for dive two. guess what? more turtles and sharks! congrats and good job to Susan for finishing up her Advanced Open water in great style! she’s on her way to the Galapagos for a dive trip next! thanks to all for good diving today! Larry, Max, Joe

Memorable Three Tanker 5/25

May 25, 2014/in Dive Reports, Dive Travel/by Maxine Markert

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 white tip reef shark, Leila, Andy and Damien my advanced open water students, all enjoyed swimming through the wreck and after 30 minutes of being circled by the submarine we ended our dive. The last dive site we hoped in on was called Rock pile we decided to drift along the a series of random objects left on the bottom of the ocean again another 30 minute dive, there was also a mixture of large coral heads, and larger schools of fish. Fortunately we had an extremely laid back group today. A huge welcome back and thanks to Bob I can’t wait for your stand up act you were making me crack up today thank you for making me laugh and smile most of the day! And a Farewell to Mark Allen and Crystal Manning you too were excellent company all week last week and today, you two were people I looked forward to diving with every day, thank you for making my job easy. Everyone out was an absolute pleasure to be around we had an extremely incredible day with a great group of divers. Thank you for all coming out today with a lot of patience, I await the day you all come back!

Seeing the Corsair in a new light

sleepy turtle

Yo-257

Submarine

Rock Pile

Sea cave Entrance 5/23

May 24, 2014/in Dive Reports/by Maxine Markert

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. After a 30 minutes of exploring the wreck my dive crew surfaced and we enjoyed a 45 minute surface interval. We made our way over to Sea Cave the conditions looked nice and it was Larry one of our advanced student divers doing his last dive for a while on the island. We got down and entered the cave but it was all whited out so I made the decision to turn the group around and dive along the wall. We did a 40 minute dive and saw some turtles and one Spotted eagle ray on our way off the wall. It was a extra fun day with a fair amount of regulars on the boat. Michelle and Michael diving on who dive with us quite often thanks for coming out with me it was a blast to have you. Brittany and Jon you guys are always a pleasure to have around I know I can trust you to stay with the group and handle yourselves thank you for making my dives interesting and uneventful! Tony, it was a pleasure to show you some excellent sites in Hawaii thank you for choosing us to for your first dive in the United States. Larry this is farewell for now but I can’t wait for the day you come back to dive with us again, I hope your journey to Arkansas is all you hope it to be, Well Wishes! Linda, you were a hoot on the boat all day and onto the next day I am excited to have you on the Three Tanker on Memorial day Sunday, you made me laugh throughout the day! Mahalo to All of you guys for coming out diving with me today and I look forward to having you all back out on the water with me again very soon!

Michelle and Michael examining the New Barge

New barge

Entrance to Sea Cave

Exit to Sea Cave

Farewell to Larry!

Eagle Ray

Avoiding the rain with great diving

May 24, 2014/in Dive Reports/by Mark Savel

With rain around parts of the island we had clearer skies and no rain diving in great clear waters off the south east side of Oahu. We had some wonderful viz as we headed to Pa’a’awa for the first dive. We found a few eels about the site including a large yellow margin morey. There were also a lot of sergeant majors and saddle wrasses around the reef. We had a nice little dive but soon had to head up for the next dive.

For the second dive we dove Anglers Reef and again had great viz and life all around. There were more eels hiding around the reef including another large yellow margin and a couple white mouth moreys. There were also a lot of reef fish about the area with moorish idols and butterfly fish swimming about. We had a great afternoon and congratulations to Lyndsey on finishing her PADI open water certification.

Morning Dive May 24th

May 24, 2014/in Dive Reports/by David Pinilla

The rain surprised us early in the morning, just to give us a really nice dive 20 minutes later. On the way to our first dive LCU ship wreck, the skies started to cleared and give us 80 feet visibility underwater. With a mild current the water was clear and warm, at the wreck we found frog fish, moray ells and nudibranchs. After 28 minutes we have to come back to the surface to find a nice blue clear sky. Perfect!!! Then we cruise to our next dive spot Fantasy reef, where we had a mild current again, but with a nice blue sky we had over 70 feet visibility. Over Fantasy reef, Laura and Mike completed their Peak Performance Buoyancy Specialty, Congratulations!!!

We drifted fantasy reef towards Diamond Head and we spotted a school of Oceanic Surgeon fish, moray ells, scorpion fish and the beautiful coral heads!

Congratulations to Susan completing her Deep dive and Peak Performance Buoyancy dive specialty!!

Thanks to Captain Joe, crew Max and Kelsie and Instructor Amy and my self David!

Afternoon Dive

May 23, 2014/in Dive Reports/by David Pinilla

A beautiful day to dive, hardly any wind and flat seas. Cruising towards our first dive site the weather could not have be nicer with Koko Head behind us and Diamond Head in front of us … perfect views!

Koko crater gave us awesome visibility, calmness, and lots lots of turtles. Perfect conditions for an Underwater Navigation, good job Susan! Later we moved to our second destination, Anglers Reef. With a bit more wind but still that nice sun and blue skies! At Anglers Susan completed the Underwater Naturalist specialty with no problems! This reef is a great spot to find different species of fish, and lots of invertebrates. We spotted four yellow margin moray eels, the puffer fish gang (15 of them), cleaner shrimps, fantastic leaf fish, three different species of sea stars, nudibranchs, sea urchins and a beautiful juvenile “Dragon wrasse”.

Congratulations to Lindsey on her first Open Water dive, she did great!! and also Congratulations to Susan on her portion of the Advanced Open Water course.

Thanks to Eiichi and Aya for joining this dive, different than cold Seattle right?!

Thank you Capt. Joe, crew Kelsey and Instructor Max and myself David.

Cruising along.

HITTING THE WALL (FOR A GREAT DIVE!) May 22

May 22, 2014/in Dive Reports/by Larry Hogan

another calm day, as winds are still down, gave us an pleasant ride out to LCU to look for it’s resident sharks, frogfish, and eagle rays. we saw a turtle instead of sharks, but did catch a glimpse of a passing eagle ray! and the frogfish is back on the lower rail, begging to be photographed by any who can find him! joining me today were ryan and emily (first ocean dive!), lew and rill, and mike and liz. nice group today, and special congrats to emily for a great job in the ocean!! also along was crewman chris, not sure what he was doing (see photo!) on our 2nd jump we hit the wall at spitting cave (or spinnaker cave, as liz calls it?). another super experience as we found two octopus and myriad turtles, as well as lizard fish, box fish, cow fish. . . etc. a great day for fish ID! thanks to all for safe diving, Larry and Lord Kendal

Cruzin’ on a sunny Thursday afternoon

May 22, 2014/in Dive Reports/by Amy Bossler

Weather conditions: sunny, slight breeze
Dive Sites: Kahala Barge and Angler’s Reef
Dive Conditions: limited surge, little/no current, 120+ viz
Marine Life Observed: Sandbar shark, sponge crab, octopus, nudibranchs, frog fish, leaf scorpion fish, and 4 helmet shells.
Staff: Capt K, Amy, David, Nate, and Mia

Aloha,

Thanks for choosing to dive with Island Divers Hawaii. We had our fantastic group of high school marine science students, Ocean Matters, from sunny Florida join us for an lazy afternoon of diving. Capt’n K led our group of eager divers to Kahala for a fabulous start. We explored the inside of the wreck which rests in 95′ of water then did a perimeter sweep. We saw: a sandbar shark, huge sponge crab, some black coral, and lots of schooling reef fish. For dive two we cruised over to Angler’s Reef. This is a beautiful reef ledge in 55′ of crystal clear water. Today it was like an treasure chest full of exciting finds! We saw: leaf scorpion fish, an octopus, nudibranchs, helmet shells, sea biscuits, cushion starfish, lots of eels, and giant porcupine fish. All in all, it was a great afternoon of diving. Thanks again for choosing IDH. Until next time, dive easy.

Aloha,
Amy

Whitemouth Moray

Leaf Scorpionfish

Horned Helmet, pu puhi

Drifting along da East Side

May 21, 2014/in Dive Reports/by Amy Bossler

Weather Conditions: Sunny, slight breeze
Dive Sites: Skimmen’s Reef, Spitting Caves
Dive Conditions: slight current, 100+ feet of viz
Marine Life conditions: Sea turtles, spotted eagle ray, white tip reef shark, octopus, juvenile frog fish, and tons of schooling reef fish
Staff: Capt. Kendall and MSDT Amy

Aloha,
Thanks for joining Island Divers Hawaii today. We had fantastic conditions for diving. Today was the first time all week that we were able to leave the bay for some wall diving. Capt Kendall lead the way for our small group of Mark, Kelsey, and Andrey. For our first dive we headed to Skimmen’s reef. Our max depth was 65′ and we had :40 of bottom time. We swam under the arches and had some great topographic diving. Saw tons of reef fish, a juvenile frog fish, and turtles. After our surface interval we headed to Spitting Caves for dive two. Our max depth was 50′ and we had a bottom time of :55. This was a fantastic dive! We started off with a huge spotted eagle ray, saw a bunch of turtles, an octopus, and a shark!!! Woohoo!!! Thank you again for joining IDH, it was a great day on the water. Until next time, dive easy.

Aloha,
Amy, Capt. K, and Cammie (diver dog)