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OK, divers, this is not the familiar by-the-numbers listing posted by other dive companies. We'll give you a little peek at a few of the quality sites we previously conducted guided tours for our fun-loving and discriminating dive buddies. Please remember these dive sites are seasonal and condition dependent on: weather, surf, tides, wind, rain, ocean conditions and the time of year you chose to visit.

An old WWII munitions ship ran aground near here, jettisoning her cargo of hundreds of unopened boxes of live ordnance. This dive is a military man's dream. The ammo boxes sprout coral heads outside with octopuses inside. Bandoliers, compete with cartridges, are strewn about the ocean floor. Mortar and howitzer rounds, 30- and 50-caliber rounds and hand grenades are found in naturally concreted blocks. Tritons and helmet conches crawl among the rubble. 

Near an abandoned harbor, follow a lava flow seaward, crossing an expansive sand flat. Isolated large coral heads act like magnets to attract resident octopuses, moray eels, leaf scorpion fish, frogfish and turkeyfish. The sand flat reveals hundreds of empty (and not-so-empty) seashells, some with baby octopuses inside. Blennies, razorfish and burrowing urchins dwell in the sandy bottom. 

Usually a scooter or kayak dive, due to distance from shore. A 50-foot flat drops first down a wall to 90 feet, then continues deeper past sea fans and fat jacks. Slipper lobsters and squirrelfishes inhabit pukas (holes) along the current-fed drop off. Whales and eagle rays have been seen here; a resident white tip shark may cruise past branches of black coral. 

Three underwater lava tubes lead back into the heart of a mountain. A large 30-foot opening signals the beginning of a tube that continues for more than a hundred yards, eventually tapering to an impassable major restriction. Cold fresh water keeps you alert to the scarce and minute life forms here. The silty bottom will suck up dropped objects such as a dive light (we know one that's still there). 

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