Island Divers Hawaii Staff Members

Weather: Clear sky, light and variable winds

Dive Sites: LCU to Baby Barge drift and Sea Cave to Baboon Nose Drift

Dive Conditions: Moderate current and 100 ft viz

It was a wonderful day on the water off Oahu today. We had light winds and almost glassy surface conditions as we headed out to the Barges for our first dive.  We decided on a Drift over a few of the wrecks with the strength of the current and great conditions. We dropped in on LCU and right away found a frogfish on the wreck. Shortly after we came across a white tip reef shark hiding out under the wreck. We then headed off to New Barge, with whale sound clearly being heard, where there were damsel and butterfly fish along the way and around the next wreck. As we were coming to the end of the dive we drifted over Baby Barge and again had fish life all bout the area.

For the second dive we drifted Sea Cave and again the viz was perfect. There was a turtle resting inside the cave and a few more swimming about outside it in the current. There were also eels all about the area and milletseed butterflyfish following us along the reef. The reefs off of this area are some of the best on Oahu with great coral growth and fish everywhere. The current moved us along at a good pace, so much so that we ended up infront of Hanauma Bay by the end of it. A great day for being out on the water.

Frogfish off LCU

New Barge

Baby Barge

Back of Sea Cave

Milletseeds everywhere

Young turtle cruising outside Sea Cave