Maui Buddy Request 3/31 - 4/7

[danny.hightower]

Hi,

I'm advanced certified and looking to do some shore dives while on vacation in Maui as I'm trying to keep the non-diver girlfriend happy...

I'd be happy to pay for tanks and a guide fee for a local if interested. I'm staying in the Wailea area but will have a rental car & I have all my gear.

If anyone has suggestions on how to pull this off or a local you can recommend please let me know.

Thank you in advance,
Danny

 

[diversteve]

What about a commercial shore dive guide? By the time you pay someone's tank rental/guide fee it's probably as cheap.
Some in the Kihei/Wailea area include:

Welcome to SHAKA DIVERS Web Site! Home of Maui's Coolest Shore Dives! - Shaka Doug posts on SB regularly
Maui Dreams Dive Co - Scuba diving guides, training, sales, service and rentals, Maui HI - they also have a buddy sign-up sheet in the store.
South Maui Guided Shore Dives - B&B Scuba

This is a lot of fun also - Maui Scooter Divers - Maui's Scooter Diving Specialists - Come scuba Diving with us!

Many of the good shore dives are in Wailea anyway so I wouldn't drive to West Maui unless you have a specific site to dive - it's about a 45min. drive typically.

Since the Kihei boats all leave really early (6AM) to get to Molokini before the tradewinds pickup - 2 dives and you're generally back by about 11/11:30. Mike Severns likes to be the first boat out there:

Time: Meeting time is 6:00am and we typically return between 11:00 and 12:00. If you're wondering why we meet so early, the almost daily tradewinds start to pick up around 11:30 or 12:00 and this allows us to be underwater or on our way home when they start. Maui Scuba Diving - Mike Severns Diving - Maui Dives

I would almost bet you could find someone to dive with at several of the Wailea sites also - Makena Landing, probably Ulua Beach. At Wailea Beach we couldn't find parking after about 8:30 one morning - it's a common problem at many of them. The Kamaole's or the farther south sites maybe not so much - the Kamaole's see a lot of beachgoers from the thousands of condos behind them. Anything south past Makena is more remote - some of it is restricted. http://www.shorediving.com/Earth/Hawaii/Maui/index.htm

 

[DiveMaven]

We'll only overlap you by a couple of days, but as of now are planning a dive at Makena Landing on April 5, weather and conditions permitting. Its a shallow dive (35-40') and we typically get 90 minutes out of our AL80 tanks. We're very experienced Maui divers and know the site well and a local friend will be diving with us as well. Also, we go early (usually around 7:30), so you'd need to be good with that.

If you're good on air and interested in meeting us, send me a PM when we get closer and we'll see if we can make it happen.

 

[SoCalSwami]

My family and I will be on the island from March 25 thru April 9.
Sending a PM with contact info.
Mike

 

[Steve Eady]

Maui Scooter Divers - Maui's Scooter Diving Specialists - Come scuba Diving with us! Try them you will have a "BLAST". Can't wait to get back to ride them again