Island Divers Hawaii Staff Members

Today was a gorgeous day out on the water, the sun was shining and the water was refreshing! We had small group of certified divers on the boat this afternoon all ready to spend some time below the surface. For the first dive we headed over to our finger reef, Turtle Canyons. With a maximum depth of 40 feet there is lots of marine life to see. We found a giant helmet conch, an octopus, quite a few moray eels, one who appeared to be in an altercation with said octopus and also appeared to be winning! A great big porcupine fish decided to swim with us for about 5 minutes of the dive as well! We were also able to find the beautiful but very small gold lace nudibranch. After a fun 45 minute dive we headed back onto the lovely seafox to make our way to the second dive site. For our second dive we went out to Fantasy Reef, an excellent reef full of fun critters. The maximum depth at this site is 50 feet. Here we were able to swim with lots of turtles, I lost count after 5. We also found a baby white tip reef shark underneath one of the ledges! There were again lots of moray eels and another octopus, these ones appeared to be getting along though. We also saw quite a few blue dragon nudibranches. It was an amazing 40 minute dive on a beautiful reef that we don’t often get to dive in the afternoon. It was a fun day with fun divers!

Crew: Captain Joe, Instructor Sarah, Instructor Jim, Crew Maddie
Conditions: Visibility 30-60 feet, water temperature 76 degrees