Aloha again! Capt Dan here speaking from the helm of the Dauntless. The last few weeks have seen some very strange weather for us. I have not seen patterns like these in many years. Lanai has been good on and off but sorta choppy and sloppy. The last big south swell made Shark Fin and Lighthouse the favorite dive sites. The Hammerheads are back! Molokai is very productive but again, the weather has been challenging! Remember the opening scene from the Perfect Storm? 'Nuff said. Molokini has been EPIC to say the least! 200 feet of visibility and tons of sharks, jacks, eels, and even a group of Humpbacks today! Guess they didn't get the memo! On a different note, I have noticed a preponderance of what I like to call the DBA. This stands for the Dreaded Butt Ascent, and is caused when a diver inadvertently does an uncontrolled buoyant ascent. This can be a risky thing to do and at the least you blow your safety stop and penalize your computer and yourself. Remember Boyle's Law, "the volume of a gas is inversely proportionate to the pressure exerted on that gas". That means, when you ascend, your BCD expands and you float up! Remember to vent as you ascend and try not to use your inflator to go up. That's what your fins are for! Well, the summer is shaping up to be a real great season! The weather is stabilizing now and we are ramping up for some cool dives. Hope to see you all soon! Gotta go get my divers out of the water! Later! Capt Dan

Aloha Divers,

 

Captain Dan here.  After due consideration, I have decided to take over the blog here at LD.  Steve did a great job for quite a while, but now that he is off and running, I felt someone should pick up the slack.  Seeing as I am on the front lines, so to speak and know just about all of you, one way or the other, it became very clear that I should "volunteer" as it were.

 

I will be updating this blog constantly based on the crazy, interesting, embarassing, and educational things that happen out on our charters on a daily basis.  Be warned, I will be looking for all the goofy things we all do, nutty things we say, strange and unexplainable things that we observe and all the other weird and wonderful things happening out here.  If you have any feedback, observations, questions, or anything else, jump on and let me know.  As you all know, I am not shy, and will endeavor to answer all queries in an honest manner. 

 

So, there you have it.  I will be starting this craziness this week and will be plotting, I mean, preparing our first real blog.  Thought for the day, the record for longest time removing your fins on the ladder is 9 and 1/2 minutes.  Pretty good if you ask me.  Okay, everyone, forewarned is forearmed!  Be seeing all of you very very soon!  (insert evil laugh here)

Aloha,

Capt Dan

 

 

 

With the arrival oif spring we have noticed many changes.  One of the most noticable is that our winter guests, the Humpback whales, have all but gone for the summer. There are just a few stragglers left but the majority have headed for their feeding grounds in Alaska.  On a positive note we have seen increased numbers of some of the other creatures we have an opportunity to interact with year round.  We are definitly seeing more Mantas on our Manta point charters which are Mondays at 9:00AM and our Thursday Evening Twilight/ night dive at 3:30 PM.  It seems that it is mating season and we have seen multiple animals on our trips in recent weeks, our divers have also observed several Manta mating trains this spring.   On our Moku Ho' Oniki Rock trips to Molokai we have been seen more Hammerhead sharks  than in previous weeks, I don't know that we can attribute the increase in activity to mating season but we sure do like to see the sharks.We continue to enjoy great diving conditions on the Island of Lanai this spring and to help us enjoy that to the best of our ability we have started a new charter offering of a Lanai drift charter.  Our Lanai drift charter allows us to do dive sites that are not already established with a mooring, so if you have already done Lanai and been to several of the established dive sites this is an oppertunity to see other area's in a different way. So if you are heading out this way check us out we have a lot going on.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We are right in the middle of another great Humpback whale season this year, and we are having many encounters with the Whales on our way to and from our dive destinations.  We have also had some great diving condition's on the Island of Lanai in recent days. I was over on a charter the 17th of March and we Dove 1st Cathedral and a site called Noname-Paradise and on both of the dives, especially Noname -Paradise the visibility was as good as I have ever seen. I'm sure that the visibility was a solid 150'.  The water was so blue that It really made me take notice.  Everything seemed so vibrant and alive.  It was like all the enhabitants of the reef were dressed in there Sunday best and out for a day on the town. Even for me , someone who has been fortunate enough to do many dives on that same site, this day I am not likely to forget soon.