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I was born in 1955, which means that I will turn 55 this summer. A friend suggested that I do something special to mark my "double nickels" birthday. Well, I hadn't planned on anything special, but a plan has slowly come together. I will be traveling to Hawaii twice this summer. I'll be in...

I'll just miss you. I'll be there with June 13-20 with a group from Maui Dreams Dive Co. This will be my fourth trip to BLR. (BTW, even though I now live in Edmonton, Alberta, I'm originally from Merrillville, IN.) In any case, have a great trip! Peace, Dave

One other thing to remember is that the mantas don't always come. My only experience of the GEC manta dive involved zero mantas. While the lights may attract a lot of plankton, which encourages the mantas to come, they are still wild animals who are quite free to decide to go somewhere else...

I just looked at the slide show. I was most interested in pictures 10, 11, and 12. It looks to me like the whale did a partial breech (or a head slap, or some other above the surface activity) during those pictures! If that is the case, your photos are even more amazing than I first...

Congratulations! A spectacular picture of a spectacular encounter!! Thank you very much for posting the photo. I look forward to the video. (Myself, I was very fortunate to see two humpback whales off Molokini back in February, 2005. I don't have any photos, but the whole experience is...

Dive and Sea Maui is one of my favourite boat dive ops in Maui -- a great new boat (Sundance III), they run it as a 6-pack, and I especially love the 7:30 am check-in time (I am NOT a morning person, and find it very hard to consider ops that ask you to check-in by 6:00 am! :) ) Dive and Sea...

Thank you for your replies. It has really helped to hear from other divers who have experienced rotator cuff problems, or other related shoulder problems. I realize that there is a good chance that I won't recover 100% of shoulder function, but that I have a good chance of improving beyond my...

I managed to do a real number on my right rotator cuff when I fell on the pool deck following a scuba pool session. The MRI shows that I have a full width, full thickness tear of the supraspinatus tendon, with a bit of damage to the infraspinatus tendon, and a full thickness tear of part of...

Once again, thank you for the pictures -- they give me hope as another Edmonton winter approaches. I especially liked the picture of the Orange Spine Unicorn (surgeon) fish. For some reason, that fish has become my favourite fish to see while in Maui. I love the markings and the colours of...

What DonWinchester described has been my experience with Dive and Sea Maui on every trip I have taken with them, from my first trip on the Sundance II in February 2005 through to my most recent trip to Maui back in late-June, early July of this year (this time on the Sundance III, which is one...

All I can say is WOW! Peace, Dave

The turtle swimming past the diver is my favourite -- you can see just how small the turtle is, and it looks like the diver will have to cross his eyes to keep the turtle in focus if it swims any closer to him! Peace, Dave

Thanks for posting the pictures from Molokini and Marty's Reef. I especially liked the close-up shot of the trumpet fish. Thank you also for including a topside shot and pictures of divers in the water. Including such shots helps us to envision the whole experience, giving us a feeling that...

Thank you for your responses. I have been out on the twilight/night dive with Ed Robinson's, and did the twilight/night (Manta) dive combo with Kona Honu, and enjoyed them both. (My only problem in Kona was the fact that no mantas showed up. It must have been a statutory holiday on the...

Most of my diving has been in Maui, where very few (if any) ops go out in the afternoon. The trade winds pick up in the afternoon, making for rough conditions and, probably, poorer viz. The same pattern seems to be operative on the Big Island (or at least it was in my one trip to Kailua-Kona)...

Thanks for the news about Lahaina Divers going to Moloka'i on Fridays. I checked out the web site, but it only contains the basic info that you relayed to us. By any chance, did the email you received indicate how long this will be part of their regular service? My next trips to Maui are in...

I have seen Divemasters and instructors use the Wheel on boat dives in Maui. They've use it to plan the first dive as a multi-level dive. They've then announced as part of the briefing the multi-level dive plan that the DM guide in the water will follow. I've also seen those same DMs and...

Wow!! That has Twin Lakes (south of Edmonton) beat. I've very much enjoyed my dives at Twin Lakes, but the tannin in the water means that all the dives have effectively been night dives -- once you get about 10 or 15 feet down. My only other experience with Alberta lake diving was an UW...

The day after my previous post, the stars all aligned for my trip. I'm flying to Victoria on Sunday evening (Aug 17), staying at a motel in Saanichton until Thursday (Aug 21), and diving with Rockfish Divers (Brentwood Bay) for at least two of the three possible dive days. One of the days is...

Prior to my trip to the Keys in Feb, 2008, all my warm water diving was in places (maui, Fiji, GBR in Australia) where there was a DM in the water with us. Most of these ops allowed you to dive your own profile, though they did ask us to let the DM know when we were beginning our ascent. Most...