Underwater for the Earthquake

[Turtleguy9]

Aloha All
A strange thing happened Thursday. I was leading a dive around 10 am, and on the dive I heard some strange noises like explosions, and vibrations. I looked all around, and saw no boats overhead or anything weird. When I got back on board the boat, I asked if the navy or Coast guard had been doing anything around us. The Radio kicked on then, and said there had been an earthquake off Maui. Now I know what an earthquake sounds like underwater.
Did anyone else have a similar experience?
Aloha Turtleguy9

 

[Wildcard]

Cool! Thats something new.

 

[kidspot]

odd - I'm on Maui and didn't notice it ... course I was asleep at the time I think

Thanks for the info on what it's like underwater though.

Aloha, Tim

 

[Turtleguy9]

Aloha All ,the story says. Maui visitors got a surprise Thursday, a Richter 4.9 earthquake that could be felt on Maui because of its unusual location, just south of Kahoolawe.
Link
http://www.bizjournals.com/pacific/stories/2006/07/24/daily53.html

Aloha Turtleguy9

 

[justleesa]

nope....didn't get to dive on Thursday
Glad you were able to experience something new

 

[sea nmf]

Yes, that's cool as long as no one gets hurt.

 

[Brewone0to]

Aloha All
A strange thing happened Thursday. I was leading a dive around 10 am, and on the dive I heard some strange noises like explosions, and vibrations. I looked all around, and saw no boats overhead or anything weird. When I got back on board the boat, I asked if the navy or Coast guard had been doing anything around us. The Radio kicked on then, and said there had been an earthquake off Maui. Now I know what an earthquake sounds like underwater.
Did anyone else have a similar experience?
Aloha Turtleguy9

I just had that same sort of thing happen to me
today in Gulf of Mexico off of Florida.
I thought it might be a passing boat with loud boom box onboard.
After finishing dives and going home found out there was
a 6.0 quake 250 miles off the coast.
We were out only about 20 miles or so.
Alot of booming like thunder, followed shortly by shockwave that could be felt.

 

[www.scubamazing.com]

That's crazy. Thanks for the description

 

[www.scubamazing.com]

I'm posting this nearly 8 hours later. But I was reading the news and saw this. http://today.reuters.com/news/artic...ST_0_QUAKE-GULF-UPDATE-2.XML&rpc=66&type=qcna Sounds like you got quite the earthquake in the gulf.