Carthaginian

[DiveMaven]

Here's the deal, when we dive with B&B we can get to McDonalds before they quit serving McGriddles and then B&B is about 100 yards away so we can pick up a couple of tanks and get some shore diving done. Of course that leaves us with plenty of time to turn those tanks back in for a couple of more tanks for our night dives.

I dive in mud usaully so when I'm in paradise I don't waste the day

I hear you for sure, and what I meant by not seeing us do a 2-charter day had more to do with the cost of the charters than doing a lot of diving.

Heck, we just got back from a week in Belize on the Nekton Pilot and would have stayed another week if we could have swung it. We loved the liveaboard experience so much that we're definitely planning another Nekton cruise for 2007 (we already have our 2006 travel plans set).

We're going to wait and see what other people think of the Carthaginian as a dive, then you never know, we may suck it up and do a 2-charter day. With B&B getting back to the dock so early, our SI would be a good 3 hours, so an 85' dive would be fine after that.

 

[Al Mialkovsky]

I'm certain I'll dive the Carthaginian when we get to Maui next time. I'm sure that dive will only get better with time but one problem will be I fear that it might get over dove for awhile.

 

[kidspot]

What do you mean overdove? at the moment it's just a single file line... starting at the beach... now when it's 3 or 4 lines going out there...

seriously - Every time I've driven by that area lately I've seen boats anchored above it. Usually 2 of them.

 

[DiveMaven]

Near as I can tell, Extended Horizons and Lahaina Divers are taking divers out there, which makes total sense since both are like a 5min boat ride to it. I'm having a hard time thinking that it's worth the $139 that they are charging, which is why I'd love to hear what someone thinks of it. I haven't seen either op's website say that it's a dive for AOW only, but I've heard that LD is running a 85' for 20 minutes profile, which sure puts it out of the appropriate range for at least newbie OW divers.

Hawaii charter prices are so expensive that I'm really hard pressed to want to do anything but shore dive after noon anyway, so would have to hear some pretty good things about the Carthaginian dive to be curious enough to book it....and I love to dive wrecks. Then again, it would be pretty cool to see the wreck right after it was sunk, then go back every couple of years to see the changes.

Tim, you really need to go do the dive...inquiring minds want to know!

 

[Charlie99]

Every time I've driven by that area lately I've seen boats anchored above it. Usually 2 of them.

You ought to get down around MM12 and check out the boat anchored there. It's the heavy lift vessel Blue Marlin from Dockwise, with the SBX missile radar platform on it. Really weird looking big radome.

 

[Al Mialkovsky]

Tim you into a long swim next OCT??

 

[kidspot]

You ought to get down around MM12 and check out the boat anchored there. It's the heavy lift vessel Blue Marlin from Dockwise, with the SBX missile radar platform on it. Really weird looking big radome.

You mean this thing? I didn't see it till tonight just before Church as it was getting towed past Lanai...

 

[Charlie99]

You mean this thing? I didn't see it till tonight just before Church as it was getting towed past Lanai...

That's just the SBX radar and platform. Here's a photo of it while still on the Dockwise heavy lift ship Blue Marlin. My daughter took the photot while on the way to snorkel at Black Rock Saturday morning.

It was front page news in the Sunday Maui News. Apparently it was in Pearl Harbor, but came over here for deep sheltered water to do the offloading.

 

[kidspot]

Thanks Charlie -

I heard about it, but didn't get to that end of town while it was here. So I only got to see it after it was offloaded, and unfortunately the sun was behind it, so my shots didn't even turn out all that well. - Thanks for the "before" shot

Aloha, Tim