Turtle Canyon Dive Site, Waikiki, Oahu
I had a great time diving here when I was in Oahu, you were guarunteed to see 3 or more turtles at the site even if you weren`t paying attention. And they were big ones to. We`d usually do the site as the second dive of the day after a deep dive on one of the nearby wrecks (usually the Sea Tiger) It was a nice relaxing site to just wander around and see what you could see. There were other attractions as well but you had to look harder to find them. We found a resident white tip that slept in th...
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Some surface Interval on Oahu
I didn`t get to see much of Hawaii while I was there. I was to busy diving and never really recovered from my jet lag from flying straight to Honnalulu from Iraq. So often when I wasn`t underwater, I was physically wasted. I did get three little side trips in while I was there (that can be posted here anyway), Sea Life Park, Waikiki Aquarium, and Pearl Harbor. I usually get a kick out of aquariums and no service member can really avoid seeing Pearl Harbor. I was actually kind of dissapointed in ...
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Sea Tiger Wreck, Oahu
The Sea Tiger is a nice wreck to dive. Not a spectacular one by any stretch of the imagination but a nice one. She sits in just over 120 feet of water at the bottom and you can touch her at around 80 feet when you descend on the wreck. She hasn`t been down for very long so she is still structurally sound and not to overgrown or corroded. Of course that means not as many fish as on some other wrecks but she`s an excellent site for training on diving a relatively deep wreck. I used this site for m...
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Learning to dive in the Red Sea
A co worker of mine who is also an instructor, informed me that I learned to dive in his wet dreams when I showed him my pictures of the Red Sea when I got back from a deployment to Egypt in 2003. I didn`t expect to get to learn SCUBA on a deployment to Egypt but I`ve wanted to ever since I did a resort dive in St Thomas in the early 90s. Oklahoma just isn`t the type of place that says, let`s go diving today. I wandered around the town of Naama Bay next to old Sharm talking to the different scho...
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