Maui in August, need recommendations

[MauiScubaSteve]

The dives on the 3-tank and Adventure charters are usually live boat dives, and often on the Wednesday Adventure charter you'll get a 3rd dive by going to a smaller site for your 2nd tank, cutting it short (since you're done exploring anyway), and using the rest of your tank at another shallow/smaller site. Like doing Three Anchors, coming up with 1500psi and doing Hellcat afterward. Both sites are easily explored in 20-30 minutes and not too deep. Or doing Third Tank and Red Hill each for 1/2 tank of air.

So the Wed Adventure charter is sometimes a 3-dive trip, but not a 3-tank trip?

 

[DiveMaven]

Yes, sometimes the Wednesday charter is a 2-tank, 3 dive trip. The first dive is the normal 60ish minute dive, the second and third are shorter....if you want. It's an option that is sometimes given that if you want to cut your second dive short and come up with at least 1500psi, you can do a third dive at a shallow site. We did one where the second dive was at Third Tank, which is a small site (don't need more than 20 minutes), came up with about 1800psi, did a short SI, then went back in for a 3rd dive at Red Hill for about 40 minutes, coming up with 500psi.

 

[scubadada]

Usually the first dive on the 3-tank charters goes to the deeper sites, like The Apartments (110'), Shark Condos (130'), deeper backwall, 85, Battleship drift to The Apartments, etc. The dives on the 3-tank and Adventure charters are usually live boat dives, and often on the Wednesday Adventure charter you'll get a 3rd dive by going to a smaller site for your 2nd tank, cutting it short (since you're done exploring anyway), and using the rest of your tank at another shallow/smaller site. Like doing Three Anchors, coming up with 1500psi and doing Hellcat afterward. Both sites are easily explored in 20-30 minutes and not too deep. Or doing Third Tank and Red Hill each for 1/2 tank of air.

It is important to be able to reboard a live boat in sometimes rough conditions, be experienced going deep, and be good on air to do these dives, which is why they're advertised and limited (as much as humanly possible) to advanced divers, and really try to keep to that.

Hi DiveMaven,

Dives sound great, just the kind of activity I'm looking for. Appreciate your concern for my diving skills, I'm more than fine.

Thanks, good diving, Craig