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I'm glad someone is still on the look out for this school of Hammerheads in Southern Kona...but it saddens me that so few Hammerheads have been seen compared to what we saw in the early 70s (see post below from 2004) . After several thousand dives all over the Big Island, over 1/2 of those...

April 7 I am having cataract and possibly glaucoma surgery in one eye. Does anyone know how long it might realistically be til I can dive again?

Hey Osseous-hows them bones-glad to hear someone 's been there-how'd you get there ,Sail, or fly? If you flew-where did you stay or did you camp, and are their any air compressors on Inaugua or Acklins. Can you say any more about the diving there compared to the rest of the Bahamas diving that...

Has anyone dove Inagua or Mayaguana islands in the Southern Bahamas...with small populations and being far from other major Islands, these Islands look like they might still be pristine for the diver who wants to do something close by?? thanks, Saildiver :)

Hi HOA-did you ever find much good info ,or better yet, go to the big M?? peace, saildiver

Sorry this is so late. I was very sorry to hear of your fathers accidental death. I have'nt been back on scubaboard much after my good friend Dan Grenier's scuba- related death. but it was good to see how most of the SB community rallied behind your family(as they did Dan's). I hope and pray...

My husband and I are planning aan 18 day stay at Lodge Kura Hulanda beginning 10-13-06 and would be very interested in any difficulties you "encountered".

We are going to Fiji on Feb 4 for 2 weeks-any new news on the politics going on there,ie,news here of travel cautions due to a threat of a coup a couple weeks ago...I haven't heard any thing recently...I suspect the media made more of it than it really was but...Thanks for any...

Spearing sharks have provoked attacks by sharks that were acting quite docile before they were attacked-and at times they attacked someone comepletely unrelated to the spearing-one incident involved tagging a reef shark's dorsal fin with a small spearpoint and the shark immediately after the...

Definately check ot Moody's Namena Island resort-just you ,6 beautiful bures perched on the hilltops of the island with spectacular views,trails through beautiful forests to the 5 secluded beaches and 2 beach heads,incredible diving all around the fringing barrier reef-I've been there-the Island...

Hey Tiggs-good points...although,there are good estimates of how many of the sailors died from sharks,exposure,or wounds,etc. (a doctor survived the ordeal in the water and swam from man to man as they were dying and pronounced them dead and at that point his life jacket was usually taken off so...

As a longtime Fiji diver,I strongly suggest checking out Namena Island's website...great diving and paradise to stay at...Peace...saildivers.

If you like to dive,I highly recommend Namena Island-See above post....Peace...Saildivers.

Diana5531-Unfortunately,now that Dan Grenier has passed on-you've missed the best of what Fiji has to offer as far as hard core diving-and I mean hard core. But an even more beautiful setting with also spectacular (and more relaxed) diving is Namena Island-only 6 bures on the entire Island-I...

;) That's generally correct Mantascareme-but its not that simple-because some of the bigger sharks are also likely to travel long distances...ie,Great Whites tagged in California were recently spotted in Austrailia-so they swam across blue water to get there. Tigers,Great Hammerheads,Makos, and...

Dear Mantasscareme-that depends on where you are diving-as I earlier posted on this thread its very rare for scuba divers to be attacked-if my memory is correct-in 2004,there were 74 shark attacks reported in the Global Shark File-only 5 were on scuba divers(actually a worse year than...

Hey DeepBlue Divers-I saw your site-over 60 whale sharks-thats an amazing population base...as a avid student of sharks :11ztongue and former marine biology researcher,I'm very curious if you've learned any thing new that you can share from your studies so far...do the same sharks keep...

Bull sharks are regularly seen at Cocos Islands,Mapelo Islands,and the Socorro Islands-each Island group about 300 + miles from the mainland-they had to get there some how ;) and we really don't know how deep they were swimming on the way...Peace...Saildivers.

I mostly agree with everything you say Rick-except the "normal" ;) shark behavior. I'm not sure we know what "normal" is in the case of attacks all that well. We don't really know why one Bull shark will attack and the next one won't in the same circumstances in the wild-but it probably has...

Hey Rick -That's why I didn't get your point on "killin em" earlier in this thread-maybe you were being sarcastic? Its not the sharks that are the problem-if we go into the ocean, there is going to be some small chance of running into a hungry shark-the odds increase as the human population...