Today was kinda a big day in my diving goals, not only did I get certified Deco Procedures and Adv Nitrox by Jo, instructor at IDH, but we also dove a new dive site today, Ko'olina Arch, about 5 miles from Ko'olina. This is my first dive report BTW, so please bare with me.
First off, the discoverers of the arch have yet to give it a formal name yet, but we are working on it. Anyhow, after doing our initial head to toes and our buddy checks at 30 feet, we descended to 150ft, right onto the arch. Unfortunately our depth limit is at 150 and there was about 10 feet of swim through that I would have liked to explore a little more.
Heading east from the swim though was a wall rising up from about 160-165 feet up to around 130ish. Lots of cool little tunnels and such, but I the fish life was a little less than desired. Of course we soon found out why at the end of the dive, a nice 10 foot Galapagos shark was following us around wondering why were in his house. Although I was slightly narc'd, I still think the big guy swimming around with us is still safer than parking my truck at Electric Beach. After about 5 more minutes of exploring we began our ascent that included 20 minutes of deco on 50EAN. Waiting for us at the surface was the 6-pack 3/4 Time, ready to haul us out of the water. All in all it was a pretty nice dive.
Now that I have my class out of the way, does anyone know about a deep wreck on the West Side?
First off, the discoverers of the arch have yet to give it a formal name yet, but we are working on it. Anyhow, after doing our initial head to toes and our buddy checks at 30 feet, we descended to 150ft, right onto the arch. Unfortunately our depth limit is at 150 and there was about 10 feet of swim through that I would have liked to explore a little more.
Heading east from the swim though was a wall rising up from about 160-165 feet up to around 130ish. Lots of cool little tunnels and such, but I the fish life was a little less than desired. Of course we soon found out why at the end of the dive, a nice 10 foot Galapagos shark was following us around wondering why were in his house. Although I was slightly narc'd, I still think the big guy swimming around with us is still safer than parking my truck at Electric Beach. After about 5 more minutes of exploring we began our ascent that included 20 minutes of deco on 50EAN. Waiting for us at the surface was the 6-pack 3/4 Time, ready to haul us out of the water. All in all it was a pretty nice dive.
Now that I have my class out of the way, does anyone know about a deep wreck on the West Side?
