Re: [91attendees] Scuba Diving ?

[Manner Jukka <[e-mail]>]

Hi, thanks a lot for sharing. I’m going on Monday morning with Kaimana Divers (waikikiscuba.com). Let’s see how their operations work, a deep + shallow combo. My gear came through alright, so can use my own familiar equipment, and I have my own DIN-to-yoke adapter. :)

Later during the week some more mornings, boat and/or shore, and maybe on Saturday morning early some shallow dives - my plane leaves on Sunday 16th at 8:40.

How was hda overall, the feeling and how professional the performance was ?

Btw, why did you come up so quickly on the first dive ?

Looking forward to your report on the deeper dive trip. 

Jukka

On 08 Nov 2014, at 15:24, Dimitri Staessens <[e-mail]> wrote:

> Hi Jukka,
> 
> Which way did you go diving wise?
> 
> I just did 2 dives with hda, was three years since my last dive, so I booked
> 2 shallow reef dives with them online (89$), with pick- up and drop off (+12$).
> 
> First dive, saw 2 whitetips (first time I see sharks, so pretty cool for me),
> lots of moray eels, some rockfish.  Was a bit short 31min, buddy was MSD
> and we both came up with plenty gas left (I was just over halfway my tank).
> So a bit disappointing on that point.
> 
> Second dive saw some morays, some lobstery thingies and a devil scorpionfish.
> We came out after 45 mins with ~50 bars left, so that's would count as a solid
> standard "dive-op" experience.
> 
> They were not very prepared for DIN regs though, they looked
> for and found 2 tanks with DIN, but after the first dive, they couldn't get
> the yoke convertor out of the second thank , so my second dive I used
> one of their regs. Not that big of a deal.
> 
> I've booked a deeper 100-120ft wreck dive with them for tomorrow morning
> 7.15am.
> 
> cheers,
> 
> Dimitri
> 
> 
> Manner Jukka schreef op 10/30/2014 4:49 AM:
>> I was looking at Kaimana, too, and also these three:
>> 
>> Reef pirates: reefpirates.com
>> 
>> Island Divers: oahuscubadiving.com
>> 
>> Waikiki Dive Center: waikikidiving.com
>> 
>> 10 years ago I was snorkeling in Hanauma Bay, and would be nice to see it in scuba gear now. This company also does shore trips to see marine life:
>> 
>> http://www.hawaiiecodivers.com/
>> 
>> Jukka
>> 
>> On Oct 30, 2014, at 4:36 PM, Dimitri Staessens wrote:
>> 
>>> Manner Jukka schreef op 10/30/2014 3:22 PM:
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> Any hints as to what to see and which company to use if, when, I want to go scuba diving during my stay ?
>>> Most recommended ops seems to be
>>> Kaimana:
>>> waikikiscuba.com
>>> and Hawaiian Diving Adventures
>>> http://hawaiiandivingadventures.com/
>>> HDA's has 7am dives :)
>>> 
>>> cheers,
>>> 
>>> Dimitri
>>>> What is the water temp, I will probably bring my own gear.
>>>> 
>>>> In Finland one needs to prepare for around 40F/4-5C (or even lower) all year round, and visibility of 2-10m (on a good day ;).
>>>> 
>>>> Jukka (Padi MSD)
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