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Island Divers Hawaii Staff Members
9/14 Sometimes Surf Is The Enemy
Kellan Bernhardt
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Sunday – We started with an amazingly hot and beautiful day, and boarded the Argie Bargie to get some diving/teaching in on the afternoon. The first site up was Koko craters, our familiar and incredible turtle watching site. We jumped in to low visibility as a result of a huge south swell that decided to spring up that morning. That didn’t stop us from having a super productive dive however, and it’s almost more exciting when the people you’re leading around have no idea where they are. We got to see some turtles sleeping off the big swell, the statues were getting mildly buried, and the sergeant majors were as cross as always. Next site we moved to Anglers Reef, where we attempted to flee the bottom getting kicked up by waves, it’s a little bit deeper, and easy to navigate in low visibility. On this site we saw tons of big morays, a bunch of little ones, a horned helmet snail, and urchins all over the place. As the ocean rocked us to sleep we had to keep a vigilant eye on our positioning. Nice work everybody, we’ll see you around.
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Photos courtesy of Larry Hogan
Weather conditions: Warm, sunny, small wind
Dive Sites: Koko Craters 35 min 35 ft, Anglers Reef 45ft 30 min
Dive Conditions: 20+ viz, 82F
Marine Life Observed: Spotted Moray, Green sea turtle, Pencil urchin, Scorpionfish, Horned helmet snail
Staff: Capt. Kendal, Instr. Kellan, Larry, Amy, Everett
