Sunday with the monk seal

So Scot and I went up to Mahukona Sunday morning to go for a dive at a new spot. When we got there, we saw a monk seal swimming around and some warnings about it attacking people. We got in and hoped for the best. We swam about 50 yds when I noticed that monk seal was swimming around us. She started nuzzling against us and hugging us with her fins. Scot was so freaked that we cut short our dive after about 10 minutes and swam back to the pier where we jumped in. She followed us to the pier and was hugging my leg as I got out of the water. Then, she jumped on the pier with us and wanted to follow me back the the car. We called our wives and let them know about the monk seal and they drove down 40 minutes later.

We spent the rest of the morning snorkeling and having this monk seal play with us in the water. She liked Candy a lot and followed her back to the pier also. Tried to get out when Candy got out, but the tide was lower so she could not get out.


As it turned out, she was just a lonely monk seal looking for company to play with and was very loving and used to being around humans. We left around 11 am but went back at 5 pm because Scot had forgotten his wetsuit there. She was still there playing with people there.

2nd Dive

Second dive was near the coast. Some great shots.


Scot is showing off, swimming with turtles, going to the light, trying to fly a WWII Navy fighter plane.

Diving on Oahu

So I went to Oahu last weekend and my friend Scot took me diving with his wife, Candy. We did our first dive at 100ft on a crashed WWII fighter plane that ran out of gas heading back to the airfield.


Scot tried to fly the plane out again, but it was still out of gas.




At the end, I was feeling the nitrogen narcosis from going down too fast. All smiles and forgot to put my regulator in my mouth.

Diving at Puako

Probably the best dive spot in N Hawaii. It was flat today and we saw the biggest eel I have ever seen.

On our trip to Honolulu, we flew on Go!









Then, met with Jacquie at her timeshare with the spectacular views of Waikiki.