Monday, March 11, 2013

Hawaii Fish & Dive Expo Pics

Final set up of our booth before the doors opened at 9 am. at the Hawaii Fish and Dive Expo.  The weather was pouring rain so it kept everyone indoors today.

I did a quick walk to visit other booths and saw Bomboy Llanes and his incredible fish mounts and lures on display.

Kayak fisherman were in the house showing how to rig up their yaks.

Clifford Cheng aka "Voice" is always the man behind the scenes running from the Red Sea Paparazzi.  You can run but you cannot hide from the Red Sea Cam. Ha Ha!

Even Jake Shimabukuro and his wife Kelly came by to say hi.  Jake will be on a future HSD show some day...Thanks for stopping by!

Of course, Merlinda drew the crowd forming lines outside the booth while signing autographs.

Colleen Gallagher and Terry Maas from DFAC also were next to us and promoting their organization and life vest.

Team Omer was well represented by Kapono, Jon, Mike, Marnie, and Kurt.

Legendary Sonny Tanabe was giving autographs.  His book "The Evolution of Freediving" was going fast.

Joe from Intova cameras was sharing their new products to interested shoppers.

Kurt Taguma from Maui Sporting Goods also made lots of sales.  James Oshiro signing his life away.  MSG had the most staff on hand and did well.

Another view of our booth before the crowd.

Red Sea "FB" Like shirts flew of the table.  One guy even wore it to go. 

Ben Wong from LGF came by to say hello too.

Martin and Nikki from FII also dropped by and admired the gyotaku work of Crow.  Martin and Garrett McNamara were speakers today at the event talking about big wave surfing.

We couldn't have done with without our Red Sea Crew!  Raina did a great job MC'ing the event.

Garret an Tsutomu Lures had incredible heads for sale.

Sam Gutierez, Robert Umiamaka, and James Pierce also hung out at our booth.  Thanks for coming by everyone and we really appreciate all your support!  Now I'm ready for a vacation!

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