Recent Posts Tagged With 'manta rays'

• So it\'s December... a big northwest swell comes in... and the water temperature in Kona goes up 4 degrees???!!!

  Posted on Wednesday December 16th, 2009 at 00:13 in shrimp, manta rays

  Last night I led the Kona manta ray night dive and I was toasty warm. Weird. A couple of weeks back the water temp took a tumble and I figured it was time to start thinking about getting into a 7 mil wetsuit for the first time since moving to Hawai...

• Manta ray scuba diving in Kona Hawaii with Wanna Dive...

  Posted on Wednesday November 25th, 2009 at 01:15 in manta rays, wanna dive

  Manta rays visit scuba divers in Kona Hawaii from Steve on Vimeo.Here's a short video of mantas from last year that I took with my Canon G9 on a manta ray dive. There were 4-5 that particular night. Last night we had only a few boats on the site, f...

• Back to scuba diving with turtles in Kona Hawaii....

  Posted on Wednesday November 18th, 2009 at 23:33 in turtle, manta rays

  Being what is typically one of our slowest months of the year I had a few days off. Today we went out again and will have about 4-5 days straight booked and then see where it goes from there.Today the conditions were awesome.... flat water and grea...

• Man, the Kona manta ray night dive is still going strong....

  Posted on Wednesday May 6th, 2009 at 02:15 in scuba diving, critters, manta rays

  The manta dive has seen 15+ mantas a night for the better part of almost a month and a half now. It's a spectacular event for divers and snorkelers. We did three of them last week, in addition to some day outings - made me tired... I'll use that as...

• The manta ray night dive in Kona Hawaii is hot right now... here's a quick video clip...

  Posted on Monday April 13th, 2009 at 19:28 in video, scuba diving, kona, manta rays, night dive

  Untitled from Steve on Vimeo.We did this dive Saturday night. 15 or so mantas were at the site when we arrived, it was 20 by the time we went back to the boat.This is always a great time when there's even one manta showing up, more is gravy... this ...

• The manta night dive is going off bigtime again right now.....

  Posted on Sunday March 15th, 2009 at 02:40 in kona, manta rays

  Hawaii fish video from Steve on Vimeo.I looked at the manta report and noticed they've had 17 mantas the last couple of nights off the Kona airport.When this is going like it is, as a diver you'd owe it to yourself to do the dive. It's also a fabulou...

• A short manta ray video from the manta ray night dive in Kona Hawaii...

  Posted on Tuesday September 16th, 2008 at 14:59 in hawaii, scuba, kona, plankton, manta rays

  Manta rays eating plankton in Kona Hawaii from Steve on Vimeo.The manta ray dive has been pretty active the last couple of weeks. Here's a short video from a slow night a few months back. If you want to see what it's like on a busy night, go to...

• Road construction update... Whoohoo!!! Kona has a new highway... sorta kinda anyways...

  Posted on Friday July 11th, 2008 at 15:39 in hawaii, living in kona, shrimp, kona, manta rays

  They opened up the north bound lanes of the highway from Palani Road to Honokohau Harbor the other day. This hopefully will really speed up traffic to the north in the mornings from here on. They still have about a half a year's work, at least, on ...

• Manta ray cleaning station...

  Posted on Monday July 7th, 2008 at 14:23 in hawaii, diving, scuba, wrasse, kona, manta rays, cleaner wrasse

  The water's finally warming up and getting to more summer-time like conditions. We've been seeing mostly 77 degrees off Kona with the occasional 79 the last couple of weeks. Today I'm cleaning the vacation rental for our next renters who come in tom...

• A face only a mother could love?

  Posted on Tuesday June 17th, 2008 at 18:14 in scuba diving, hawaii, frogfish, kona, manta rays

  We found this little guy on a drift dive the other day. I was pretty much unaware that these critters existed a couple of years ago until one ws pointed out to me and I found out what to look for. It's a Reticulated Frogfish (Antennarius tuberosus)...

• Tonight was possibly the best manta ray night dive ever

  Posted on Tuesday May 20th, 2008 at 05:30 in hawaii, diving, scuba, mantas, kona, manta rays, night dive

  Hawaii fish video from Steve on Vimeo.Here's a few minutes snippet I took with my Canon G9. I hadn't been diving it much the last year, but back when I dove it a lot I'd been down on nights when 15-17 mantas showed up quite a number of times. T...

• Here's another short clip of the manta rays from yesterday in Kona Hawaii....

  Posted on Thursday May 8th, 2008 at 02:42 in hawaii, diving, scuba, kona, manta rays

  Manta ray night dive, Kona Hawaii May 6th, '08 from Steve on Vimeo.This is a short clip from the manta dive last night. This particular night there were roughly 50 or so divers sharing 6-7 mantas. This clip is a short uncut version of what can ...

• Took some underwater video with my Canon G9 on the manta ray night dive tonight....

  Posted on Wednesday April 23rd, 2008 at 05:14 in hawaii, kona, manta rays

  Kona manta ray night dive April 08 from Steve on Vimeo.Tonight we had two mantas show up for the night dive. I took my camera down to see how it does with video in low light - I'm quite pleased, it seems to do better than the other point and sho...

• Manta ray night snorkel in Kona Hawaii - swim with manta rays...

  Posted on Saturday March 8th, 2008 at 02:18 in hawaii, kona, manta rays

  Wierd little video of people snorkeling with manta rays from Steve on Vimeo. We've been pretty busy lately, I've got a lull coming for several days before the spring break rush kicks in for about a month. Last night we did a manta dive. Abou...