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Electric Beach and Kahe Point are actually two different dive sites. The common reference to Electric Beach is actually Kahe Point. Electric Beach is the beach just down from Kahe ... morePoint. Bring a dive flag for both sites there is lots of boat traffic here. This site is much more interesting underwater than it at first appears. This site is almost always divable. Do not leave valuables in the car and always lock up your car when diving here. The entrance/exit for Kahe Point is the small strip of beach between the power plant. Wear booties as this area is rocky and there is sea urchins. Swim straight out and drop where the reef meets the sand. You have 3 choices on where to go now. You can head over to the rocks and take the rocks straight out to the pipe (power plant water outlet). There are lots of fish here all over. Also look for shells and eels in the nooks and crannies. Please leave the shells for others to see!!! Frogfish and other critters can be found in the side of the pipes and in amongst the rocks. This include crabs and lobster (once in awhile). Please leave those too!!!! Take this all the way to the end. Be careful on the front where the water comes out you will go for a ride if you get caught in it. If you get caught in it don't fight it, let it take and when it slacks swim back to where you want to be. Explore on and around the pipe. Once finished head back the way you came. You can also go to the left after you drop and explore the reef along the cliffs to the front of Kahe Point. There is lots of nooks and crannies here too in the reef. Protector crab are common in the cauliflower coral and white tip sharks ocassionaly hang out under the ledges, turtles can be seen here. Star fish, blenny's, and shells are common through out this area. Also to the seaward side Dolphins can be seen here once in awhile. Please leave the dolphins in peace. Just parallel the cliffline here and go back the way you came. You can also take a 270 compass heading toward the actual Electric Beach. Explore along the reef. There is caves here. Use caution as white tip sharks are known to hang out here. There is also lots to be see in and amongst the reef. Head back on reciprocal. These are nice easy dives, usually about 25 to 35 feet max. There is lots to see here. There are all novice dives here.
Sealife: Moray Eels, Turtles, Whitetip Reef Sharks, Wrasse
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Makaha Caverns is a West Oahu gem. The dive site is actually a series of interconnected lava tubes that hold fun swim-throughs in shallow water with lots of light. This dive is a great ... moreway to experience an amazing natural phenomenon that is rarely seen by other people. Inside the various swim throughs divers will encounter schools of soldier fish, trumpet fish, and the occasional sleeping sea turtle. This dive is usually paired with the Mahi shipwreck dive.
Sealife: Trumpet fish, Turtles
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To the north of the Mahi, practically off Pokai Bay, sits the twin-engine beechcraft called Seaplane Wreck by the locals. It was sunk for use as an artificial reef and it's fuselage ... morelies within a U shaped ridge at roughly 90 feet. The wreck is missing it's engines, rear stabilizers and propellers. It's a great wreck for taking photos. The top section of the ridge is at about 80 feet and drops to debris strewn bottom, which slopes to about 110 feet. In this ledge one can view tropical fish, moray eels and crustaceans that live in the small fractures.
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This dive site is hugely popular and features the wreck of the Mahi that was sunk in 1982 for use as an artificial reef. It is roughly half a mile off the shore. The Mahi was used ... moreby the Navy to lay cable; the Dillingham Corporation bought it in 1982. It lies upright on a sandy floor and faces seaward. Visibility is anywhere from 50 to 100 feet. This dive site boasts large amounts of marine life, including spiny puffer fish milletseed Butterfly Fish, Ta'ape, White Tip Reef shark and eagle rays. The wheelhouse is perfect for photo opportunities and it boasts red and yellow encrusting sponge, hydroids and snowflake coral.
Sealife: Coral, Frog Fish, Trumpet fish, Turtles, Whitetip Reef Sharks
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This is a very unique dive as you get to dive a wreck and a natural reef at the same time. The wreck is that of a twin engine Beachcraft plane that was intentionally sank to form a ... moreartificial reef along with three other wrecks. Hurricane Iwa broke them up and scattered them all over the ocean floor. Two of the three wrecks were never seen again. She sunk in the early 1990's and ever since, has attracted various marine life and coral growth.
Features: Plane Wreck, Reef
Sealife: Moray Eels, Trumpet fish, Whitetip Reef Sharks
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When one travels towards Ka'ena Point on Farrington Highway one will observe, just past Kaneana Cave, a finger of lava extending in the direction of the sea. This is a shore dive ... morewhich has its entrance on the left side of the ridge. It is advisable to avoid the windward (right) side because the swell is extremely strong and can be dangerous, even in calm conditions. Snakehead cowries are the only real attractions along the ridge. Further away from the shoreline, however, the site becomes more visually appealing as the bottom topography slopes towards the main point of interest - a channel known as Makua Valley Ridge which stretches due west. A 250-foot swim leads to two small peaks that resemble a gateway to the channel. If one continues along the gutter one will come to a collapsed lava tube which resembles an amphitheatre. The top of the depression is at 33 feet and this drops to a bottom depth of 45 feet.
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Kea'au Beach is for advanced divers only because of the difficult entry along the lava ledge. This dive should only be attempted in the calmest seas. Consult your local dive shop ... moreto get the current conditions.
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Black Rock is mainly a wall dive with depths of between 40 to 90 feet and a huge cavernous chamber roughly 100 feet long and 50 feet wide. The mooring buoy will allow you to go to ... more55 feet, which is also the top of the rock outcropping. The room has various entry and exit points due to erosion. A drop of 90 feet over a near wall takes one to a massive underwater chamber where one can view white-tip reef sharks and turtles. Amazing hard coral polyps can be viewed living on the ceiling as well as the sporadic Kona crab or spiny lobster. Visibility is good as long one takes care not to kick up sand.
Large resident eels, squirrel fish, snapper, octopus, tubastra (cop) coral
Sealife: Coral, Moray Eels, Octopus
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This is Hawaii's newest and latest wreck dive. This 15 meter Havilland plane was used by the Hawaiian Air Transport Service. Years later this plane was used in a Hawaiian Film ... morecalled 'Flight 29 Down' hence the name. She was built in the early 1950's and sank as a artificial reef in 2007. Despite her bottom time, she has already started to gain new marine life and coral growth. She rests on a sandy bottom and penetration is allowed.
Features: Plane Wreck, Reef
Sealife: Frog Fish, Moray Eels, Octopus, Turtles
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Hambone also means Eel in Hawaiian. This reef has a beautiful ham bone shaped formation. Here you will also find a wall that runs parrallel to the shore. This site is enveloped in ... morebeautiful marine aquatics and has abundance in marine life.
Sealife: Frog Fish, Moray Eels, Octopus, Turtles, Whitetip Reef Sharks
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