My friends and I have done 3 day diving with aquatic life divers and they are great.
Day 1, we went to the long range morning 2 tank dives which is one hour boat ride away. And on our way there and on our way back we encounter a group of pilot whales and we went to snorkeling with pilot whales and it was super fun. And the Dome dive site is also interesting as it has this lava tubes that you can go through, that was a unique experience. And because of the long ride I feel a little bit of sea sick that I have to skip the manta dive on the same night, but my friends who did go there says it was amazing, more than ten mantas came and did a light show for them, but since I was not there I will not elaborate.
Day 2, we did the black water dive, which is our main focus of this trip and it was insane. The black water dive is basically entering bottomless ocean at night, with ropes tied to the boat and drift along, while observing the strangest creatures that will stay in depth in the day but came up during the night. And we did see loads of them. The only advice to anyone is interested in this is that if you are planning to get this on camera, go pro or similar action cameras may be challenging as they are bad at low light seneraos especially when everything moves even with the dive lights, I used a TG-7 with additional camera lights and most of the photos are not good (videos are better somehow)
Day 3, I ditch my friends and did a morning reef two tank dive as the last dive of our trip and want to do something relaxing and it was a nice surprise that we saw a lot of dolphins :)
Overall the three day dive has exceeded our expectations, and all thanks to our captain frank and Scott and our dive guides Noah, Mary and Marc, all of them are patient, professional and knowledgeable and has accommodating different levels of diving skills, air consumption rate of five of us, and made it such great diving trip
Ответ от хоста
Sep 2024
Aloha, thanks for coming out with Aquatic Life! Glad to hear you got to experience some of the best things Kona has to offer! We are so lucky to have such amazing wildlife encounters here, and our crew loves sharing it all with our guests. Definitely come back again so we can take you diving with the mantas! Mahalo!