thankfully the water was pretty clear
everyone was thrown in the water in groups, it was crowded when we arrived
water was not clear unfortunately
honestly the bottom would only be dangerous if you lost all your lights or totally ran out of air
nice to see fresh water fish I had never seen before
cleaning station for turtles, there were 6 or 7 sleeping there
Oh yeah, now I remember that the dive guide seemed a bit green and got anxious when I got just a bit ahead of him or went to check a small hole within easy reach of him, when he only had 2 divers to keep track of. Sigh... But that confirms what I was saying that Dive Kauai is definitely not for advanced divers.
Despite all the crap and bad feelings from Nick, the DPV dives were lots of fun, even if the DPVs themselves had worrisome failure modes, including no maser shutoff of wrist deadman switch. I was even told that sometimes they get stuck on, that's not good... Thankfully they did not for me and they were definitely fun. Before the dives, a dive Kauai manager/coordinator also came to meet me that morning to apologize about the mess created the previous day, which was nice of him and honestly I was ok enough walking away after that and burrying the hatchet, except passive agressive backstabbing Nick felt it would be good to call the next company I was going with to badmouth me and try to convince them not to dive with me, oh nice... So yeah, after that Nick made sure I let everyone know on every medium available to avoid him and Dive Kauai. I hope he gets fired....
the guide was good and gave us a good briefing on what we could see
not hard to find turtles, they are literally everywhere
I finally found where the lobsters were hiding in Sheraton Caves, took me a while to find the spot again
For the dusk/night dives, we were 4 divers, plus the guide:
Then, I found this beautiful Stary Night Octopus, but that also ended the dive as it got a bit too friendly with us:
it was a nice boat, bigger than Aggressor
this fish doesn't fly but it extends it wings to look bigger
night dives were often better than day dives, and found one squid
a good amount of crabs at night
I was the only one who spotted it, it came and went quickly
the texture on them, is wonderful
the baby nurse shark was even cuter, learning to hunt from its mother
they like to sleep under rocks
and they don't seem to care if they don't entirely fit and stick out a lot ;)
by random luck, I had my LED outfit with me, I don't normally bring it on dive boats :)
yeah, it was hard to carry that rock up there and balance it just right :)
nice manta shrimp, so colorful as always
clown triggerfish are always fun :)
the only sharks I saw, but they were cute and sleeping in a hole
not a lot of rays during this trip, but found a few
almost no hard coral, but some nice enough soft colar
dolphins came to race us a few times, but never saw or heard any during the dives
big groupers also came to join
interesting starfish like animal that moved quickly
during the next dive, the nurse sharks came to see us many times
it tried to turn into a weed :)
found a nurse shark sleeping in the rocks