Maui Dive photos dive 3

[CleveYank]

Dive #3 from 02/08/08

The dive site is Molokini, the wall. This 150,000 to 146,000 year old volcanic vent (huge) has produced a ring in the middle of the ocean floor near the shoreline of Kihei on the island of Maui. It stands upright with the wall going from the ocean floor at 260/300 feet in a half moon crescent.
Dive was limited to a 70 feet to allow for good bottom time on the
following dive.
Photos were taken in a surging current (yes the kind that can take you down and out into the ocean) so photos were difficult, but not impossible.
Enjoy.

 

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Some of my fellow divers.

End of Dive 3.

 

[Shawno]

wow those pics are great. i want to go diving and see the reefs now

 

[K-ROK]

Amazing pics....ty.

 

[cbcostanza]

Oh how I want to go back to Hawaii, but this time with a diving certification.

 

[serpentman]

Welcome back Mike. Awesome pics. I am green with envy.

Reef tanks are fun, however, nothing beats the actual reef itself.

 

[rj ripetide]

Nice pics....Must of been great to be there.....I am sure we are all envious of that trip....or at least us that haven't been there...
I heard it hard to take nice pics underwater but it seems you did a great job.
I think I am starting a new change jar today for a dive trip.

 

[DaveOSU]

Great Pics...looks like you had a pretty freindly octopus. Thanks for sharing.
I was wondering what dive operator you were with? Also wondering what restrictions they placed on the dive? ie. advanced cert. or experience? We did the inside of Molakini a few years ago with Severens diving, they were pretty selective about taking folks to the wall side. What other sites did you do while there?

Sorry, I can talk diving all day...

-Dave

 

[DirtyHermit]

WOW!

 

[CleveYank]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11817984#post11817984 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by serpentman
Welcome back Mike. Awesome pics. I am green with envy.

Reef tanks are fun, however, nothing beats the actual reef itself.

Hey Jeff, ty,
The envy part....I'm not back yet .

I go on 3 tank dive tomorrow and night dive on Thursday. So far that is.

 

[CleveYank]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11818911#post11818911 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by DaveOSU
Great Pics...looks like you had a pretty freindly octopus. Thanks for sharing.
I was wondering what dive operator you were with? Also wondering what restrictions they placed on the dive? ie. advanced cert. or experience? We did the inside of Molakini a few years ago with Severens diving, they were pretty selective about taking folks to the wall side. What other sites did you do while there?

Sorry, I can talk diving all day...

-Dave

Well, Robinson's took myself (advanced open) and wife (ink dried on her open water the day before to the wall.

John our divemaster/marine biologist student of life took good care of us. Can you say info overload even for someone who knows a thing or two about fish etc?

Good fun.
The wall placed a daunting air upon things for my wife with the 260/300 feet of abyss below but she weathered it and did fine.

 

[t5Nitro]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11817069#post11817069 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by CleveYank
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What kind of fish is that? Really cool pics by the way. I hope I can get out to Hawaii sometime, and dive the crater if I'm not afraid of deep water lol :lol: You can snorkel and see the same things can't you?

 

[CleveYank]

snorkeling depths limitations

snorkeling depths limitations

What kind of fish is that? Really cool pics by the way. I hope I can get out to Hawaii sometime, and dive the crater if I'm not afraid of deep water lol You can snorkel and see the same things can't you?

Well t5Nitro,
Ty on photos. That fish and I were hit in the backside by the same current surge so since we were going the same speed that is why he is not a blur. Pretty sweet outcome. I know it's a tang of course...but I left my fish of Hawaii naturalist dive book home in Ohio. So my guess is as good as yours.

I hate to report on snorkel status limitations.
Overpopulation. 4 big hotels that dump tons of nitrate and pesticide and the run off from the removal of native trees and grasses on the islands causes a chemical/red silt slick of iron oxide slurry that showers into the ocean around every shoreline in Hawaii. Damn golfing hobby is more destructive on an island than it is on the mainland.

Therefore, you know that untaken care of look that a tank has with that funky greenish tan algae and polyp and coral growth is hit with and looks dead or dying?

Well that is what most of the near shore areas that I have noted in Kaui and Maui are like. (I will have some photos of that posted in the near future as well.)
So in order to get to the good stuff. You need to be a few miles offshore and some depth goes with it.

There is a small area near molokini in which you can snorkel, but with the costs and such the full on diving allows for more spectacular views.
And photo underwater is tough enough with gauges, depth, bottom time, buddy and divemaster tracking, where's the boat, with keeping from placing feet or hands in urchins or moray eel holes, currents little alone your next breath...

 

[DevilBoy]

Could that possibly be a Atlantic Blue Tang? Or may a type of kole tang


It has features of a type of mimic tang also.

 

[94ls-sie47]

nice pictures...

 

[icu2]

agreed nice pics; any more?