Author: Jon

A first today: Using scooters to get to Marty’s reef from Makena Landing. T’was easy as pie. 2nd dive was just a slow, relaxing kick dive.

Putting a new Macro lens through its paces. It’s tricky as the focal range is very very short, like less than an inch, on the macro ultra close-up shots.

Went out with Island Style Diving yesterday for a dusk/night dive. Molokini was the planned destination, but it was too rough from high winds. Trying out the new Divevolk iPhone housing which allows using the native iPhone camera app (which is far superior to the camera apps provided by the housing manufacturers) as this housing […]

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Used the scooters to go out to the St Anthony again. New dive buddy Daniel wanted to try the Lefeet tank mounted scooter, so I used the Scubajet and we launched from Mokapu Beach. I finally got my St Anthony nav groove back; No more searching for the wreck, this time I hit it dead […]

Today was the day to test out new gear, and Ulua is always the perfect place for that. Trying out the new Kraken Wide Angle Conversion lens for the Kraken Smartphone housing. It is working quite well, I think. You be the judge. Also tried my new Aqualung Axiom i3+ BC with and without the […]

Once, long ago, I did a night dive under a full moon when the water and sky were so clear that my buddy and I (can’t remember who it was now, some instructor friend no doubt) did the whole dive without turning on our lights. It was bright enough to see where we were going […]

Another epic dive at Makena Landing. No, no Monk Seal so maybe not that epic. I met up with a couple of new dive buddies early at Makena, which is always nice to avoid the parking crush. Mostly all the usual suspects as far as critters go, but it was just a nice, calm, long […]

I went up to Honolua Bay to dive today for the first time in well over a decade. Honolua Bay has been a marine preserve for as long as I have been on island (March 1995), so the fish populations and reef health were very good. The long jungle walk from the parking area wasn’t […]

For my first night dive at Mala Ramp, I joined Maui Mantas Kimberly and Donna, who I dove with the day before on Island Style Diving to Molokini and Aloha reef. It was awesome, as night dives always are. Spotted a couple of cool new critters and some old faithfuls (turtles, sharks). Also as always […]

First dive to Kealia. I have heard this is the place to find Sea Horses, but no luck today. It is a shallow dive with only small patches of reef. Mostly rock and sea grass. Still found some cool things, though. I hope you enjoy!

Went out today with Island Style Diving and it was epic! First stop, Molokini Reef’s End. All the usual suspects fish wise, but right when the group was turning… just beyond… was a school of baby Gray Reef Sharks. I wanted to swim out to them, but the divemaster was signaling me to return to […]

Quick jaunt to Makena Landing and a lucky spot of the rare Hawaiian Red Lionfish.

Posting a day late. Yesterday was a weird day. 🙂 I did 2 dives, but have no pictures from the first one, which was my first dive from Cove Beach Park to Aloha Reef. It is shallow for a long way out and is a popular surf spot, so not the best entry/exit, but it […]

I was supposed to go out with Island Style Diving’s boat, the Pilikai, this morning but a fuel pump was out, so they had to cancel. So I grabbed a tank and my scooter and decided to try to make it to the St. Anthony from Keawakapu Beach again. Last time, I couldn’t find the […]

This morning I joined some Maui Manta (Facebook group) members on a private dive charter on a new boat business that just started up in April. The boat, the Paikea IIRC, was built and is owned by Mikel and Maggie, Maui Pacific Divers. I love their story; Mikal put his name on the list for […]

Again ’nuff said.

‘Nuff said.

Today I got invited to join my friends Lynette and Cat as they took Cat’s daughter, Taylor, on her first dive. I also took the opportunity to try out the new Kraken iPhone housing that allows me to attach wet lenses, so I can shoot Macro and Wide angle in full 48 MP splendor. It […]

Shoreline was blown out yesterday for diving due to some big surf, so I went out on the Maui Diamond II again. Always a good time. Got lots of pictures of critters I either had never seen before or never got a picture of before, like the Flagtail Tilefish or the Redspotted Sandperch, so that […]

Just a couple of pics. GoPro HERO 11 with Wide angle dome lens (for the record, not a winning combo for pictures, fine for video) and 5000+ light.

Today, my dear friend Irene and I joined Maddy from Maui Dreams Dive Company for her Endemic Fish of Hawaii specialty certification class. And it was AWESOME!!!! We did two dives at Ulua Beach, which if you follow this blog you know I dive at a lot. Maddy found some critters I had not seen […]

Itching to get in the water after a full, hard work week, I picked up a tank after work today and just shot down to Ulua Beach again. Conditions were nice and found some cool small stuff.

Another dive testing the new scooters. I think I now have the kinks worked out and they are fantastic. I got a solid 50 minutes of constant use before one of the units ran out of power. The other likely lasted longer because it kept turning itself off. This was the issue I have been […]

Quick dive on Ulua reef to play around with the new scooter again.