Sunday, September 11, 2011

NWHI-day 10 Maro Reef

This morning we arrived at Maro reef and the weather was little rougher but who cares! Let's dive! There is no island here just underwater reef spider web system layout which is around 10 miles wide. We dove this spot and saw loads of knife jaws, the most I've ever seen anywhere. Then a huge school of omilu swam by then a bunch of big Uluas. We had fun with the Uluas and every time the boat came near the uluas came too! We would have our boat man rev the engine and all the uluas showed up every time.
After the dive we decided to see what the scuba guys were doing so we dropped in. They were surprised to see us of course 65 feet below. Here Kimi (right) dropped and surprised them.

After that we were able to get some shark footage. These are a dozen or so 5-6 ft sharks checking us out. I haven't seen anything over 8 ft but I'm sure they see us. We didn't eat lunch again but did have a few pumpkin seeds between spots to keep us going while staying fully hydrated. We try and stay in the water as much as possible until our fingers and toes gets all wrinkled. Tomorrow we transit to Pearl and Hermes Atoll and I hear that is amazing! Stay tuned..

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