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.

Lanai Scuba Diving

In the last few weeks we have had a lot of great encounters with wildlife. On our charters ot Moku Ho'Oniki rock off the Island of Molokai we have had continuing success with the hammerhead Sharks.  Several of our divers as well as the Dive guides have reported having great encounters with several sharks. We also had one of our charters to Lanai encounter a pod of False Killer whales during there trip over from Maui. On our last charter to the Back wall of Molokini we had a group of Manta rays com in and entertain the divers, so everyone including the rays had a great time. Here on Maui we are also seeing more and more of our visiting Humpback whales, so if you are planning a trip this way come in and see us.

The several trips to Moku Ho'Oniki Rock have been great from the standpoint of serface conditions, meaning we have had moderate wind and sea's for our dive's. We ave also noticed a smaller nomber of hammerheads on our dives but or diver's have reported seeing some more of the other sharks, such as Galopagos and Gray Reef shsrks.  Also two weeks ago I was remarking to our group that we used to see a lot of Spinner Dolphins in this area but that I hadn't seen them in a while.  On that very dive we had several hundred Spinners show up and hang out with the divers. That is what is going on for now I look forward to seeing or hearing from all of you and we are all excited for our winter season with some potential special Ops. trips as well as the return of the Whales.

We went to Moku Ho'Oniki Rock on our weakly charter to see the Scalloped Hammerhead Sharks. The weather forecast for the dive site was for east winds 20 to 25 knots with seas of up to 11 feet. What we found when we got there was substantially nicer weather we had maybe 15 knots of wind with 6 foot sea's which made for some nice diving. We had great shark encounters on both of the dives, with numbers of sharks ranging from 10 to 20. John was able to get some great HD video and his brother Mike secured some nice still photography for our divers because some of the shark's came in nice and close to get a good. We had a great group of Diver's for the trip everyone seemed to have a lot in common so there were many stories to be exchanged, we even had some of our friends from Australia on the trip that made for great entertainment.

Scuba Diving Molokai, Hawaii