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Great video! I'm headed there the end of this summer for a liveaboard and can't wait. Any tips or advice that you would share from your trip?

We just got back from Kona last week. Did two dives with Jack's, the two tank Manta and the Advanced Adventurer. The former was an excellent showing and something I'll never forget. It was nice to dive the site before dark, and we managed to see 6-8 mantas throughout the dive. The night dive...

Did you learn anything in particular with regards to encountering dolphins? What I read sounded like it was more aimed at the snorkel/swim tours that setup shop nearly on top of a pod. I'm assuming that if I'm on a dive and a pod comes through that I can just relax and enjoy the show (certainly...

It will be mine and my wife's first time to the Big Island next month (April), staying in the Kailua-Kona area. We're planning to do a mix of boat diving and shore diving (have done a decent amount of shore diving in Maui and a ton in Bonaire). Any particular shore diving spots you could...

I splurged on a DRYFOB since I was going to spend a few weeks in Bonaire after my Maui trip and had heard the petty crime from vehicles can be quite pervasive there. I also read of some folks using a spare/ old torch (just take the batteries out). The DRYFOB worked well for me and I didn't have...

In hindsight, renting tanks on Maui is incredibly affordable. We got a 10-tank punch card for $60, while recently in Bonaire it was ~$180 for a 15-tank card. That said, where we rented from in Maui (Maui Diving- Scuba & Snorkel Center) didn't include weights so that was a couple of extra bucks.

Can't echo and recommend Bonaire East Coast Diving enough as well. My first trip to Bonaire was in July and my partner and I didn't have the foresight to make an advance reservation, but by the luck of the gods there was an opening (cancellation maybe?) the last Wednesday that we were in town...

They do not rent tanks that I am aware of, but Pura Vida is a 1/4 mile away. Reviews for the place look hit or miss and communication with the resort has been silent (trying to make some changes post-booking). My trip isn't for a couple of months though, so, we'll see.

Thank you, this is helpful. And I have no intentions of doing a night dive until after I've thoroughly familiarized myself with the site during some daytime dives (and will certainly be with a buddy).

My apologies if this has been addressed already elsewhere, but I haven't been able to find anything. I'm wondering whether a night dive could be done at BHB without the need of a permit. I've seen reference that night dives can be done from a boat anytime (tide dependent), so am thinking the...

This is a real This is an old post so not sure if you'll see this question, but can I ask what settings you are/were using on your H8 Black, and whether you were continuously recording, using quick capture, etc.? I've been having issues with my Hero8 Black not turning back on mid-dive, where...

Fair enough. How long are you in Bonaire for? My wife and I will be there for about a month, but working remotely during that time as well (though hopefully more diving than work 🤣)

Never having been to Bonaire before, I'm set to arrive the week after on July 4th. Anything I should try and prepare for or will it likely blow through by then?

Thanks! I'll definitely reach out for some tips whenever I'm next able to get Kona in the lineup. And I've certainly no problem going off grid and getting crunchy 🤣 I took about a year long sabbatical a lifetime ago to backpack and dive South East Asia.

That's a good tip on an alternative itinerary. We must have lucked out as we did not really have any traffic on the way up or down (or it was moving fast enough for me not to be concerned about it). Also, a tip I found was to walk ~10 minutes on the Pā Ka'oao Trail from the Haleakalā Visitor...

Yeah, it unfortunately was a hook. I felt so bad for it. Had the urge to try and remove it, which immediately subsided given I would have been way way out of my depth of experience 😅 The honu were amazing. Almost felt like an airport, watching some "fly in and land" to be cleaned while others...

Yep, that's right. It was taken with the DJI FPV.

Awe, thanks! I'm still working through my post-production process, which for better or worse is all done on my Android phone currently 🤣 Hoping to dial it in some more next month when in Bonaire, and I'll get to try out the Flip10 filters for the GoPro.

You did the Haleakala sunrise right. Everyone recommends doing it in your first few days of arrival while you're still on 'home' time, but it just didn't work out for us given our dive schedule. The drive up in the dark did garner a little anxiety, mostly because I didn't know if it was a sheer...

This is for a seven day trip I took at the end of May to Maui (first and seventh days being travel days). This go-round my dive buddy and I stayed in the Nāpili area and it worked out pretty well with the activities we had in mind to do. Across six days, we spent the first three diving. My buddy...