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Very good diving conditions in Kona Hawaii lately....
We've been going out pretty much daily lately and the conditions have been wonderful for the most part. They've had heavy winds up north, but it hasn't affected the Kona area diving. Today we had two divers on board, decided to head up to Garden Eel Cove (yes, even though it's only two...
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Published a day ago

Kona manta ray night dive action is picking up, just in time for spring break!!!
I saw on the manta report yesterday that 20 or so mantas showed up on Monday night. That's a bundle of action. I've got a manta ray night dive charter tomorrow and another one or two scheduled for next week. Hopefully it'll keep up with lots of mantas for those outings.We're crazy busy next...
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Published 7 days ago

Man, the scuba diving conditions are great in Kona Hawaii right now...
On Friday I had a double, running charters all day long. The water's really flat right now and viz was great. On the morning charter we hit the Golden Arches area and had fabulous viz, then followed it up by doing the Suck 'em Up/Skull Cave/Aquarium sites. Water was calm and great at both...
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Published 7 days ago

No tsunami alert, back to fun.... We celebrated by making a long range dive trip to Au Au Canyon...
The ocean was really nice yesterday morning and we decided to make the long trip down to Au Au Canyon/Crater (whatever it's called, it's cool). We don't get down there much, it's an 85/90 minute boat ride in my boat and we need a sizable enough group of good divers to make a go of it. Au Au is...
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Published 2 weeks ago

Here's the 5:45am NOAA tsunami warning supplement for the state of Hawaii...
1:30 The harbor's been reopened apparently. Boats are returning. Other than the evacuation and business closures, the tsunami was pretty much a non-event here in Kona. Aloha, Steve_____________________________________________________12:03 Finally, found a live stream... www.kgmb.com you...
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Published 2 weeks ago

6am and the tsunami sirens went offf.... so'd the neighborhood dogs...
Well, I've always wondered how long the sirens went off in case of an actual tsunami threat. 5-6 minutes worth. They test the siren system at 11:45am the first weekday of each month for about a minute or so... I've heard them once or twice when they've gone off accidentally at oddball hours,...
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Published 2 weeks ago

Big earthquake in Chile. Tsunami currently expected to hit Hawaii about 11am to noon...
Something woke me tonight and I'm up a couple hours early and saw the tsunami warning. Supposedly they're seeing 4 foot deep ocean waves in the Pacific, which means a tsunami is expected once the wave hits shores. All the arrival time listings are 2119z - whatever that means - I finally found a...
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Published 2 weeks ago

Scuba diving with wild spinner dolphins in Kona Hawaii...
Went scuba diving... dolphins swam by from Steve on Vimeo.It's uncommon, but every now and then we're lucky enough to have dolphins swim around us on dives. A couple days back we were out on a dive up at Makalawena and the moment we entered the water we were greeted with the sounds of whale...
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Published 3 weeks ago

Great scuba diving in Kona Hawaii today....
Today was a blast. We went up to Makawena, a site way up north by the cinder cone you can see along the highway near the resorts, and had a very nice first dive. That area was practically inundated by whales, and we had whales swim very close to the boat at the dive site. During the dive the...
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Published 3 weeks ago

Endemic Hawaiian Longnose Butterfly Fish... They're not just yellow, there's a black phase too...
Longnose butterflyfish from Kona Hawaii from Steve on Vimeo.Here's a short clip of Hawaii's endemic version of the Longnose Butterflyfish. They're real unusual in that they have a black phase (this one was especially black, lots of time you can see some yellow mixed in). I'm not sure that...
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Published 3 weeks ago

Scuba dive Kona Hawaii with Wanna Dive.....
Sorry for the title on this post... just giving the search engines something to look at (maybe, not sure it really does anything). We've had some really nice diving the last couple of days. Tuesday morning it was pretty flat on the ocean so we decided to take the boat down to the Red Hill area...
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Published 3 weeks ago

Underwater video of Flame Angel in Kona Hawaii...
Flame angelfish from Kona Hawaii from Steve on Vimeo.Today's dive charter had great diving conditions. Cathy led the first dive and I did the second. On the second dive we did a one way dive (moor, put the divers in, then dive in one general direction and have the boat follow the bubbles and...
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Published 4 weeks ago