Haliewa trench 07-12-08

[rockjock3]

Great dive today. Roll221, Hawkeye_67 and I headed out to the trench today. Two of us were tyring our our new cameras out(one just stopped working and my old one flooded). The conditions looked great and the park looked liked like a ghost town. Turtles abound at the cleaning station, we dropped down to 97fsw to work our way up from the deep end of the trench and an hour later we surfaced. It even ended on a high note when we ran into 3 nice sized cuddlefish at the end of the dive (almost at shore in about 4 feet of water).

 

[crab lover]

I LOVE CUTTLEFISH!!! That is so cool! Have to talk sea nmf into doin the trench real soon!

 

[crab lover]

I know, I should probably change my name to "crab, cephalopod, harlequin shrimp, nudi lover"...

 

[NudiHuntrs]

From what I understand, cuttlefish are not found in Hawaii. I think your picture is probably bigfin squid, a species that hangs out in shallow water.

Thanks for the dive report

 

[ScubaSeanMaui]

It's definitely a Bigfin Squid... I saw a few cuttlefish in Bali but never in Hawaii... Nice shots!

Sean

 

[fishb0y]

Here I was thinking cuttlefish were starting to show up since I moved away...

 

[sea nmf]

I LOVE CUTTLEFISH!!! That is so cool! Have to talk sea nmf into doin the trench real soon!

Shall we make it this Sunday, then?

 

[crab lover]

Sounds like a plan!!!

 

[justleesa]

That's a big one! the ones I have seen are a lot smaller.

thanks for posting

 

[twhi]

I don't know if its just a coincidence or not, but I've started to see them pretty regularly the last two or three years - and never before that.

Any sightings from neighbor island divers?

We saw a handful of tiny ones (bite size? :no) - at pupukea firestation last summer.