[...] There is a 48' ferro-cement hull, an old landing craft and a bunch of cement blocks at the bottom of the moorings down there somewhere, but not much else of major note. I've never taken the atlantis sub, it may get a view of any reef that might be down there. I've been to a couple of the blocks, the boat hull and the landing craft over the years, fairly short dives because of the depth.
The landing craft (The Predator) sits on the edge of a coral reef that extends SW from Kailua Pier. The reef itself it typical (for here) finger
and lobe coral; I've scootered from the pier out to The Predator several times. There's a fair amount of manmade stuff down there as well --
old moorings, bits of boats, anchors, etc. The coral reef area isn't commonly dove because of the boat traffic and it's mostly between 50 and
70 FSW.
Further south / southwest from The Predator we run into that sailboat, known as The Naked Lady, which is sitting upright in sand at about 112 FSW.
There isn't much in the way of coral reef out there - the odd patch reef now and again. The most interesting stuff on The Naked Lady is actually on
the debris field to the NW of the wreck - lots of ambush predators - lionfish, leaf scorpionfish, the odd frogfish. I've seen whitetip sharks at both
wrecks from time to time.
The cement blocks are older moorings; we used to dive one that the floats had sunk on which was completely covered in ambush predators; great
macro dive but a square dive to 120 FSW. Eventually someone resurrected that mooring and all the life left.
As for the Atlantis Sub - take a ride sometime. I've run into it numerous times out there -- always get "the look" from the pilot about whether or
not I'm going to do something bone-headed like grab onto his sub -- but the ride itself is pretty cool. We had my 84 year old mother-in-law out
on it and she had a blast. I expected it to be hokey but it really wasn't. It's a real, live, submarine.
