Airplane Engine Ko Olina? Boat Engine Shark's Cove?

[CaptFlyingDutchman]

Found these in a shore diving book.

The Ko Olina map states there is an old airplane engine out there


The Shark's Cove map states there is an boat engine out there


Has anyone actually seen them?

 

[scottitheduck]

I'm sure we could go out and snorkel the site at Ko Olina..... this out of the Carvalho book?

G

 

[CaptFlyingDutchman]

I have tried twice, all I found was some cool swim through and a old school anchor.

 

[Black_3000psi]

i dont know if i would call either one of those dive sites even if I found them Ko Olina has so much more to offer I wouldnt worry about finding no engine.

 

[kanonfodr]

If you want to do some searching, I have a big boy tank you can use, and a set of doubles for me.

Peace,
Greg

 

[ChimChim75]

I'm pretty sure I would have seen the outboard by now if it were still there. I'm not sure Ko'olina is still allowing diving. Never dove there.

 

[Coralhugger]

Not an outboard, but is an engine.

 

[CaptFlyingDutchman]

Cool, one down, one to go.

 

[cheeseman]

Oh my gosh!
I've stayed at Ko Olina quite a few times, always wanted to dive off it.
Anyways, when researching about it, I found this page where it says

"Found an aircraft engine 300-400 yds directly due West from entry in 30' of water. Also found landing gear about 100' inshore" and "There is also an airplane engine near the shoreline in about 15 feet of water. Its propellers are bent backward to suggest an impact with the water...1941 perhaps"

Ever since, i've been trying to research it to see if I can find any more info on the wreck.
I've found nothing, and this thread is giving me hope that maybe I will finally find out what that engine is from!

I hope you guys find it...I'd love to help but I live in CA. (well, i'm in kona right now but...)

 

[CAPTAINMIKESSII]

Back around 1996 I dove a plane wreck off Koolina(then the Nikko) with capt Fritz off his boat before I bought the SSII. I had the old lineups in my book but cant find them as I recall it was in about 75 feet of water and not really intact to be identified it looked like it was dumped there not crashed so this could be part of that. Theres also supposedly a twin engined bomber off makua in about 160 ft but weve never been able to find it. At one time from a military data base I plotted all the known Military airplane crashes in Hawaii and only a few are officially over the water