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Hanauma Bay, 4-2-11
Laura - 4/04/2011 1:04 AM
Dove Hanauma Bay yesterday. Gorgeous day. The bay is a Marine Protected Area. It’s nice to get past the corals people still step on to see relatively healthy corals and scads of fish in the deeper parts of the bay. Dove with Barry & Ray on the right wall with 40-50’ vis. One honu and thousands of manini, raccoon butterflies, black triggerfish....hawkfish, puffers, humu... Unfortunately there’s also a mini debris gyre of trash :-( Plastic bags really do look like jellies underwater...
Sea Tiger, Waikiki, 12-25-2010
Laura - 12/25/2010 5:47 PM
Sea Tiger is a former refrigerator ship used to smuggle human cargo...forcibly retired by the Coast Guard. It sits at 120 ft deep, offshore from Waikiki. Easy 10 minute boat ride from Kewalo Marina. Deck is at 100’ and wheelhouse is at 70’. Big old honu resides here. Dove with Arnie, Jeff & Jonathan Christmas morning....
Kahe Point, O’ahu
Laura - 11/28/2010 12:39 AM
Two dives off Kahe Point near Nanakuli. Pod of spinner dolphins put on quite a show on the surface. Shark cave was pretty crowded with divers but there were two whitetips hanging out. Two honu, a variety of morays...trying to ID a little white nudi with black gills...
Kewalo Pipe, Honolulu
Laura - 9/03/2010 4:09 AM
2 FWS certification dives 8-27-10 2 white tips, 2 eagle rays, 1 eel .... lots of humus and damselfish...
Tortugonias Reef, Palmyra Atoll
Laura - 4/06/2010 2:48 AM
April 5, 2010 30’ 1 hour 30 minutes Benthic Transects with Gareth & Eric This is the most beautiful reef I have ever seen! There are so many gorgeous corals! Too many manini to count, giant clams, bohar snapper, bumpheads, parrotfish, and more....
Tanager reef, Palmyra Atoll
Laura - 3/29/2010 3:15 AM
March 28,2010 Tanager Reef 60’ depth 50 min 45’ depth 60 min Benthic coral transects with Jen & Garreth. The reef is very healthy. Saw a couple big turtles, whitetip & black tip sharks....
Penguin Spit, Palmyra Atoll
Laura - 3/27/2010 11:38 PM
March 27, 2010 Benthic Surveys w/ Jen & Garreth from Scripps 45’ 60 min So awesome! What a gorgeous, healthy reef!...
Rabbit Island & Makapu’u Wall
Laura - 3/27/2010 3:46 AM
3-20-10 VERY choppy 3 Nitrox certification dives with Island Divers. Coolest thing...hearing whale songs underwater. There are some interesting channels and wall features around Manana. LOOOONG wait on the surface for the boat to come find us. Lots of big cowries and even an octupus on the last dive....
Western Shoals, Apra Harbor Guam
Laura - 8/08/2009 12:57 PM
http://www.divebuddy.com/photo.aspx?PicID=39838"> src="http://www.divebuddy.com/members/photos/pic_2431_39838sm.jpg" border=0> August 5, 2009 Vis 50’ Depth 15 - 65" BT 50 min Second dive in Apra Harbor. Plating and branch coarls pretty cool, lots of juvenile barracuda, sea anemones with clown fish. It’s been raining two weeks straight in Guam but the visibility wasn’t that bad....
American Tanker, Apra Harbor - Guam
Laura - 8/08/2009 12:38 PM
August 5, 2009 Vis 100’ Depth 60-90’ dive time 55 minutes The "American Tanker" is actually a large 300+ ft concrete barge. In late 1944 the barges were loaded in Honolulu with war supplies, and then towed to Guam from Honolulu by the USS Bannock and Arikara. Later they were put into position on the Calahan bank by the USS Gear and sunk to provide a breakwater at the mouth of Apra Harbor....
Hanauma Bay, night
Laura - 7/26/2009 9:41 PM
Twice a month they let scuba divers in at night at Hanauma Bay. Now snorkeling would be cool and looks really cool from up above to see all the lights moving around the bay. Diving is a different story. You can catch the trolley down the hill ($1 per tank, 75 cents per person, and 25 cents per big bag). Unfortunately, the trolley stops at 8 pm so you need to lug every thing back up the cliff road your self...not for the faint-hearted. :-D I think you can see all the critters on the reef just as ...
Fantasy Reef, Maunalua Bay
Laura - 7/25/2009 9:18 PM
D: 57 f.ft | BT: 42 m.min | Viz: Good (51-75ft) | Surface: swell July 24, 2009 2nd jump with Oahu Divers was fantasy reef, which wasn’t as we were dropped in the wrong location and off the reef too quick and out into the small rock formations to the west. viz was good on the reef, but dropped tremendously off of it. Saw a couple turtles while we were still on the reef....
Baby Barge, Maunalua Bay Baby Barge, Maunalua Bay
Laura - 7/25/2009 9:06 PM
D: 80ft | BT: 40min | Viz: Nice (76-100ft) | Surface: swell Very nice diving today at baby barge. strong current and opposing wind let us drop right on top of the shark cave. but there were only turtles home, plus the big moray. but the cave under the barge had 2 whitetip sharks resting inside.The baby barge lies upright in 60ft of water, with the coral encrusted deck at about 45ft. To the port side of the barge runs a 10-20ft ledge dropping down to the deepest point of the dive, 85ft. This ledg...
Kewalo Pipe, Honolulu
Laura - 5/13/2009 4:15 PM
Kewalo Pipe runs from the shoreline all the way out to around 65 feet in depth and was used as an old water storm drain, not a sewage drain like what is said by some. On the pipe you will find eels, crabs and other sea life nestled in the corals that cover the pipe. Dive cert with Kevin, Amanda, Ray & Barry...
Turtles, Waianae
Laura - 5/03/2009 4:22 PM
Second dive with Aarons May 2, 2009 enter 10:17 48 minutes bottom time 75 degrees max depth 28 ft Vis 100+ Reef and arches near the Waianae harbor, pretty sparse on fish but we did see a couple of turtles. A lot of silt damage evident on coral....
Mahi wreck, Ma’ili Point
Laura - 5/03/2009 4:16 PM
Access: Boat Dive with Aarons Dive Shop Location: Ma’ili Pt, West Shore enter 9:08 73 degrees Max depth 80 ft 27 minutes Sealife: 3 large manta rays and a group of 20 small eagle rays, lots of fish The Mahi was built as an 800 ton, 165ft Navy minesweeper then converted to a cable laying ship. The Mahi was sunk in 1982 as an artificial reef and rests on a sand bottom at 90 feet. The aft deck is about 80 feet with the wheelhouse at about 60 feet (but it is too coroded to enter now)....
La Jolla Shores, CA
Laura - 1/10/2009 5:06 PM
Dive Buddy : Chris Shordon OEX instructor/divemaster Vis: 5’ Temp 56F depth 66’ time :24 Dove off the shore about 2 blocks from the dive shop. Easy entry. Vis pretty bad. Sand dollar beds on the way to the canyon. Canyon wall mostly sand/mud. Saw an adult sheep crab and some small rockfish only....
First Creek, Lake Chelan
Laura - 4/28/2008 4:09 PM
Dry suit certification class with Van of Orca Scuba. 04/26/08 Location: First Creek State Park, Lake Chelan Washington Water temp 50 degrees F, entrance easy walk off shore/beach, we went to a Max depth of 45’, drop-off continues into the abyss (1400’ deep?) Completed skills for drysuit certification. DB’s: Manny, Mike, & Randy Harvey’s neoprene drysuit, 80# aluminum tank, needed 24 lbs to submerge without kicking...
Strawberry Island, Puget Sound, WA
Laura - 3/19/2008 5:23 PM
I`ll be back to flesh this out. 3-16-08 Max depth 66` 45°F 30 min vis 12` Dive buddies - Jeff & Randy Metridions, green and purple sea urchins, scallops flitting around...
Davison Rock, San Juan Island, WA
Laura - 3/19/2008 5:21 PM
First draft, I`ll be back to fix this Max Depth 73` 42°F 27 min vis 10` Dive Buddies - Jeff & Randy Lots of big white metridions. Giant nudibranchs. Saw my first Wolf Eel in a crevice....