Navy F4 Corsair–Nose with divers

Weather Conditions: NE Trade Winds 15 knts, seas 1-3 ft, Sunny

Dive Sites: Corsair, Sea Cave

Diving Conditions: Light current, 100 ft. vis

Aloha! Thanks for joining Island Divers for a great morning of diving.  Captain Kendall  led us out to the beautiful Navy F4 Corsair wreck.  Once we were moored up, we headed down the 108′ to the Corsair and explored the wreck’s structure, eels, octopus, and soldier fish.  Swimming over the sand we watched the garden eels dancing in the sea currents.  After :20 we ascended, completed our safety stop, and prepared for our next dive.

For the second dive we dropped in Sea Cave for a drift.  We swam around the perimeter of the cave and checked out the resident school of needlefish, gold lace nudibranchs, white margin nudibranchs, hairy-legged hermit crabs, and a large green sea turtle.  After :20 in the cave we headed east towards Hanauma Bay! We saw tons of schooling reef fish: sergeants, damsels,and moorish idols. We were greeted by more Hawaiian green sea turtles and located one nice sized Frog fish.  Overall, great day of diving!  Thanks again for choosing to dive with IDH!  Until next time, dive easy!

Aloha,

Amy

Weather Conditions: NE Trade Winds 15 knts, seas 1-3 ft, Sunny

Dive Sites: LCU, Fantasea Reef

Diving Conditions: Light current, 100 ft. vis

After watching the whales on the ride out to LCU with Capt. Joe and crew members Max and Megan, divers Ponje, Alex, Ryan, Mayuki, Drew, Austin and I descended down 90 feet to LCU and explored the wreck’s cavernous underside (technically the top… it’s upside-down). Swimming amongst the teaming schools of goatfish we came upon a friendly octopus, and later in the dive got to watch some eagle rays as they passed the wreck on their way west. After some farewell swim throughs we ascended and prepared for our next dive.

For the second dive we dropped onto Fantasea Reef for a drift, and immediately were overrun by giant Hawaiian Green Sea Turtles. After watching some yellowtail coris flip over rocks hunting for brittle stars and taking pictures of the nudibranchs we came across another, larger octopus who was very grabby, and got to stare down some yellowmargin and whitespotted moray eels. Towards the end of the dive we were also visited by a massive ulua as he stalked by the eastern end of the site to investigate the streams of bubbles coming from our group. Good times in Maunalua Bay!

MAX ATTACKS!