H20doctor Diving Vacation On Oahu
Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2014 7:23 pm
well i just returned from 7 days on the island... I stayed at Pensacola's House with my girlfriend aka Echo here on the Board..
we flew out alaska air from seatac and TSA didnt like my dive light batteries as always , but Oh well they never do , Here is the famous Cloud shot
arriving at the Island ... A quick phone call and chad was there to pick us up and take us back to his Nice Home... Wed was our first day of diving so we spent tuesday getting our gear put back together and ready to go... I had to re assemble my light Rig, and get cameras ready to go... Here are some shots of the dive Garage..
Chris Kniight Vip a Tank so for Wed the Trade winds were good and the swells were Low so we were Lucky enough to head out To the Seatiger and the Y O 257.. All if not most of the diving here requires finding the Mooring Ball for the site... This means you have to get on the water at an early time to beat out the cattle boats with tourist divers.. If there is a Boat on the mooring ball you have to wait .. such was the case for the YO257 wreck... So once you pull up to the site, a person has to don a mask and fins and jump into the water with the anchor line... Once on the surface you have to swim down 15 feet and run the line through the eye on the Ball... This was done by me a couple of times, and chads friend Chris Kniight... this is done on all the sites here in order to protect the reefs and the wrecks.... we only dropped the anchor 1 time on a wreck called the LCU.. Most of the Viz on this trip was 90 + feet on some of the sites I could see the boat from the bottom of the sand....amazing ... the water is a deep Blue and very clear... My girlfriend was armed with a 5 mega pix camera and got some good shots with it for a first time Photog... I took video everyday and im in the process of getting it color corrected and i set my gopro 3 Black in Protune Raw...
we flew out alaska air from seatac and TSA didnt like my dive light batteries as always , but Oh well they never do , Here is the famous Cloud shot
arriving at the Island ... A quick phone call and chad was there to pick us up and take us back to his Nice Home... Wed was our first day of diving so we spent tuesday getting our gear put back together and ready to go... I had to re assemble my light Rig, and get cameras ready to go... Here are some shots of the dive Garage..
Chris Kniight Vip a Tank so for Wed the Trade winds were good and the swells were Low so we were Lucky enough to head out To the Seatiger and the Y O 257.. All if not most of the diving here requires finding the Mooring Ball for the site... This means you have to get on the water at an early time to beat out the cattle boats with tourist divers.. If there is a Boat on the mooring ball you have to wait .. such was the case for the YO257 wreck... So once you pull up to the site, a person has to don a mask and fins and jump into the water with the anchor line... Once on the surface you have to swim down 15 feet and run the line through the eye on the Ball... This was done by me a couple of times, and chads friend Chris Kniight... this is done on all the sites here in order to protect the reefs and the wrecks.... we only dropped the anchor 1 time on a wreck called the LCU.. Most of the Viz on this trip was 90 + feet on some of the sites I could see the boat from the bottom of the sand....amazing ... the water is a deep Blue and very clear... My girlfriend was armed with a 5 mega pix camera and got some good shots with it for a first time Photog... I took video everyday and im in the process of getting it color corrected and i set my gopro 3 Black in Protune Raw...