oahu hawaii

[spudgunman]

I am going to get stuck out in oahu on a work gig for a while and going to throw my gear in a UPS box to ship out, question is anyone on the boards in or around the area of Honolulu that can give me advice or wants to dive with a mainlander?

[fishb0y]

When I lived there I dove with Island Divers. If you have access to the Hickam AFB, check out Sealancers.org. It is the base dive club.

[olyvtx]

I dove with Island Divers as well, went out on a morning, then same afternoon charter with them. Would do it again, good operation...

They recently had a lost diver and there was a bunch of mud slinging going on over on scubaboard... http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/accide ... awaii.html

[fishb0y]

You could also try Gabe Scotti with Kaimana Divers (http://www.waikikiscuba.com/). I knew him when he worked at another shop... good guy

[Scubie Doo]

Try Dave Sanford with www.divewithdave.com. He offers personalized dive services, knows the best places/times to dive, for a great price. You won't be disappointed. PM me if you want more info.

[ArcticDiver]

Try Roger Miller at Oahu Scuba Divers or Ocean Concepts at Pearl. The latter has a program for divers to ship their gear to them and then to send it back to your home. I've used both and the mail service and was happy.

[spudgunman]

thanks for the feedback guys, and if anyone reads this and happens to live there PM me

[spudgunman]

got a chance this weekend to go out with Gabe Scotti with Kaimana Divers (http://www.waikikiscuba.com/)
amazing diver team and it was super awesome cant say enough about how good this team was to dive with they get my recommendation!

with my limited time I dont have much of a dive window but now I need to find some time to get vacation not work trips to hawaii!

I forgot how awesome it is to dive in nothing but a pair of shorts, all the people on the boat were diving 3+ mil and Gabe had a hood on, says he even dives with a 7 mil!

at 100ft it was 80F - I was sweaty and they were shivering. Crazy! haha.

did a reef cleanup dive that was super fun, (Bob I got to practice my bag skills!) picked up a mountain of lead from fishing gear, along with more line then you can shake a fish at.

also super news that Katie got back in the water! she did awesome, and on the reef cleanup in 20-30ft I was super impressed with her buoyancy after a year out of the water! so hopefully she will be out at a club dive soon! it was awesome to get to dive with her again!

/also this can be moved to Trip/Recap area