Bullet
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My wife and I just returned from visiting my brother (Roll221) who now lives on Oahu. We were there for 10 days and did not want to come home. We went there to see all the site and to dive. We ended up doing more site seeing than diving. We were able to sneak in 6 dives though. The first two dives were from a boat. We dove with Oceans Concepts. They were a good company. It was $110 for two dives I think, but they screwed up and gave me the Military discount price of $65 too. The first dive was a deep dive max depth ~90feet. There was some problems with the group we were with so that dive kind of sucked. What they did was split us up into groups of 6 with a divemaster. She told us to go down and then we would all meet up on the bottom. So Ed and I went down....waited for about 5 mins and then another couple came down and hung out with us for about another 8 mins and then a few minutes later here came the rest just as we started to go explore. So basically we wasted half our dive waiting for the group. I guess one of the last people in our group panicked on the surface. The saving grace was that the divemaster did apologize to us but there really was nothing she could have done about it. The second dive was good. It was only about 40feet and we dove there for like 70mins. Lots to see. Lot of sea turtles, tangs, angles,wrases,eels...a lot of life. On our way back to the dock the dolphins were all over the place. Jumping in front of the boat and everything. It was really cool. There were also flying fish everywhere. Yes...really...there are flying fish! I need to look them up, but what they do is fly for about 100yards and then go back into the water.
The next dive we did a shore dive at Hunauama Bay. This beach is like heaven on earth. We only did one dive here because the surge getting back in kicked my butt! We wanted to go out and take some pictures standng on the toilet bowl. What that is...is a place where water surges up through these rocks and the flushes back down. Unfortunately it was to rough to get up to it. I did get to see a huge school of yellow tangs here though. That was cool.
Then on Sunday we dove Electric Beach. These were my favorite dives. A LOT of marine life! We also rode the EAC
...for all the Nemo fans. This beach is across from the electric plant and all of their water that they use to cool the generators gets exhausted into the ocean about 300 yards out via two 8 foot tubes. So what we did was fill your BCD and grab your reg and mask and kick into the tubes current that are about 30 feet under. Then the current kicks you to the top about 150 yards away. It was a blast. The first time I felt out of control, but the next time I purposely did it! That was a blast!
On the last dive we went back to Electric Beach packin'. We went out and bought Hawaiian Slings to try our luck at spearfishing. We did all the research and found out what fish we could get and not get. Since the fish would not leave us alone on the dives we did on Sunday we figure we would just grab a few for supper. Plus they said convict tangs were great to eat. Well is was not that easy. It was like us dipping a net into our tanks. These darn fish saw the sling and were gone. Long story short....we bought supper that night. I did scare up a 7 foot shark...actually it scared me. I was looking under this ledge and there he swam right next to me. By the time I got Ed over there to see him he was laying back own like they usually are during the day.
All in all the diving was good! The next time I go I am going to do more, but it is tough to do when you have the wives sitting at home waiting to go do something.
As far as needing a beach diving buddy...I would get on Scubaboard.com and go to the Island you are going to go to. I bet you would be able to find someone willing to go with you and show you around. If you go to Oahu, I bet Ed would take you. He has been logging some serious dives.
The next dive we did a shore dive at Hunauama Bay. This beach is like heaven on earth. We only did one dive here because the surge getting back in kicked my butt! We wanted to go out and take some pictures standng on the toilet bowl. What that is...is a place where water surges up through these rocks and the flushes back down. Unfortunately it was to rough to get up to it. I did get to see a huge school of yellow tangs here though. That was cool.
Then on Sunday we dove Electric Beach. These were my favorite dives. A LOT of marine life! We also rode the EAC
...for all the Nemo fans. This beach is across from the electric plant and all of their water that they use to cool the generators gets exhausted into the ocean about 300 yards out via two 8 foot tubes. So what we did was fill your BCD and grab your reg and mask and kick into the tubes current that are about 30 feet under. Then the current kicks you to the top about 150 yards away. It was a blast. The first time I felt out of control, but the next time I purposely did it! That was a blast!On the last dive we went back to Electric Beach packin'. We went out and bought Hawaiian Slings to try our luck at spearfishing. We did all the research and found out what fish we could get and not get. Since the fish would not leave us alone on the dives we did on Sunday we figure we would just grab a few for supper. Plus they said convict tangs were great to eat. Well is was not that easy. It was like us dipping a net into our tanks. These darn fish saw the sling and were gone. Long story short....we bought supper that night. I did scare up a 7 foot shark...actually it scared me. I was looking under this ledge and there he swam right next to me. By the time I got Ed over there to see him he was laying back own like they usually are during the day.
All in all the diving was good! The next time I go I am going to do more, but it is tough to do when you have the wives sitting at home waiting to go do something.
As far as needing a beach diving buddy...I would get on Scubaboard.com and go to the Island you are going to go to. I bet you would be able to find someone willing to go with you and show you around. If you go to Oahu, I bet Ed would take you. He has been logging some serious dives.
That's not a bad picture, pretty cool in fact! Beautiful fish and corals!
if only milk didn't cost nearly $8 a gallon...
