Aloha Everybody !
After just finishing speaking with Matt Z. of Island Divers Hawaii, over on Oahu, he suggested that I post to, and resurrect this thread. He didn't know about us, so you may also want to know about the opportunities we offer for Tech Diving in Hawaii. Plus thanks and mahalo to Gerard N. for his previous mention.
I am the owner of Konaquatica Dive Center, "Hawaii's Rebreather & Tech Headquarters", located in Kailua-Kona on the Big Island of Hawaii. We do in fact have our own state-of-the-art fill station, with two Haskels, one O2 clean, capable of high pressure 100% O2 fills, and we can fill any mix...trimix, nitrox, heliox, whatever.
Konaquatica offers recreational and technical charters, is an IANTD Platinum Facility and a member of the Better Business Bureau. Our boat is 30 feet and was custom designed and built to accommodate tech and rec divers, and is great for CCRs and doubles. I'm an IANTD Technical Instructor/exploration diver and offer training up-to-and-including full trimix for both open circuit, and closed circuit on multiple rebreathers. Konaquatica has sets of doubles, numerous stage bottles for rent (30s, 40s, 80s, LP46s etc.), as well as a large selection of onboards for you traveling CCR divers. We are also Hawaii's Dive Rite dealer, for all your tech diving needs. If your mission requires it, we have two surface-supplied deco set-ups and can support expeditions, film crews, etc.
For CCRS, we are Hawaii's authorized dealer for, and I personally offer quality training at all levels for the Megalodon, COPIS2 Megalodon, Optima, KISS Classic, KISS Sport, Inspiration, and Evolution. We are also a dealer for sofnolime, sodasorb, AI sensors and much more.
While tech diving is my passion and I have devoted my entire life to it, our bread-and-butter is often our high quality recreational diving charters, with a max. of six divers. If you've heard of a dive on the Kona coast, we do it: Long Range, Manta, Black Water, Blue Water, Morning Two Tank and, of course, Tech Trips.
Just wanted to introduce myself, let you know we really do exist, and invite you all to come out and join us for some amazing diving, and incredible world-class training with all the support and facilities you need.
P.S. Sherman. I'll be seeing you here very soon for your upcoming CCR course ! 'Til then, I will keep the name of your new, extremely cool closed circuit rebreather hush-hush and strictly confidential, until you yourself decide to reveal it !
Mahalo and safe diving. Thanks again Matt !
Jim Holt