Kuroshima Dives (Kerama Islands, Okinawa)

It was very warm day with south wind, which enabled us to dive the north side of Kuroshima – our favorite drop off and beautiful coral reef, with a  bunch of colorful fish.
*** Today’s Dives ***
Kerama Islands
1. Twin Rocks (Kuroshima Island)
2. Hija Bay (Kuroshima Island)
3. Kamigu (Gishippu Island)
Objective: Fun Dives
Weather: Windy
Air: 24C (75.2F)
Water: 21C (69.8F)
Suits: 5mm one piece + hood
After enjoying the dynamic landscapes aroudn the Kuroshima Island, we moved to Gishippu, where we can almost always gurantee showing you Sea Turtles.
The turtles we see commonly here are Green Sea Turtles, a little bit of Red Sea Turtles, and Hawksbill Sea Turtles.

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Okinawa Scuba Diving Trip (Kerama)

On the way to the Kerama Islands, we saw some whales again.
The one we saw today was jumping!
*** Today’s Dives ***
Kerama Islands
1. Kuroshima South (Kuroshima Island)
2. Toma (Zamami Island)
3. Ariga Cable (Tokashiki Island)
Objective: Fun Dives
Weather: Flat
Air: 21C (69.8F)
Water: 21C (69.8F)
Suits: 5mm one piece + hood
Today, we had a group of 6, trying our PADI Discover Scuba Diving program, and some certified divers.
Starting off the day at the Kuroshima South, we saw some turtles and sharks just immediately, not expected.
It was a big shark – not like the white tip reef sharks napping under rocks, that big one was swimming around under our boat.
The turtle we saw was a tiny shy one, it swam away very quickly.
We moved to Zamami and Tokashi, to enjoy beautiful reef dives at Ariga and macro dives at Toma.
It was all good dives in the sun.

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CPR Training

Naoki and Akira went to have a CPR training at the Fire Department of Kadena.
We are certified to teach various courses such as Emergency First Response Course (PADI EFR), Rescue Diver Course, and CPR Courses.
However, ‘luckily’, we don’t have a chance to actually use those skills in the real live situations.
This is why we reglarly visit our local Fire Department to brush up our skills and to hear stories from their work.

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Kerama Diving!

*** Today’s Dives ***
Kerama Islands
1. Kuroshima South (Kuroshima Island)
2. Toma (Zamami Island)
3. Sand Triangle (Gishippu Island)
Objective: Fun Dives
Weather: Windy
Air: 19C (66.2F)
Water: 21C (69.8F)
Suits: 5mm one piece + hood
Akira took two divers  to the Keramas today – good viz dives with healthy coral reef… in addition to it, Akira is very good to find these tiny funny creatures in the water.

The one on the left is a tiny crab having a bag-pack trip with a sea squirt on his back.
Can you recognize the crab underneath?

Here is another one – a sponge crab.
This is again, a tiny crab having a sea sponge on his back.
Those crabs are about 1cm big.
Akira has very good eyes, don’t you think so?

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Whales and good dives in the Keramas! (Okinawa)

Today, we saw three huge whales swimming with our boat for a bit.
The type of whales we commonly see here in Okinawa, is ‘Humpback Whales’. You can see their bent back on the picture!
I think that the three we saw today were two males fighting to get one female. They were huge – even from far away, we could here their blowing.
Anyway, after enjoying whale watching, we headed to our favorite dive sites in the Kerama Islands.
*** Today’s Dives ***
Kerama Islands
1. Ariga (Tokashiki Island)
2. Toma (Zamami Island)
3. Nozaki (Tokashiki Island)
Objective: Fun Dives
Weather: Windy
Air: 14C (57.2F)
Water: 21C (69.8F)
Suits: 5mm one piece + hood
Naoji’s group started off with drift diving at Ariga, enjoying healthy sea fans and turtles swimming by.
At Toma, Miho’s group found many types of cleaner shrimps, as well as our favorite garden eels, pink leaf fish, and many gobies.

Nozaki had some mild currents, which showed all the chromis and purple queens (there are thousands of them, literallly) very beautifully.

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Whale Shark Dives in Okinawa!

Akira took this girl from mainland Japan, for her third time Whale Shark Diving.
The visibility was great, and they were the only divers on the boat, that enabled them to swim with whale sharks as much as they want.
She got some nice pictures of them too!
*** Today’s Dives ***
Okianwa Main Island
1. Whale Shark Dive
Objective: Fun Dives
Weather: Windy
Air: 14C (57.2F)
Water: 21C (69.8F)
Suits: 5mm one piece + hood

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Afternoon Dives at Inanbishi (Okinawa)

We went out in the afternoon with three divers who arrived Okinawa today.
The picture is a type of sea squirts, we always find here.
We call it Ultra Man Sea Squirts.
Because they look like Ultra Man – if you don’t know what it is, that’s Japanese kids’s hero.
*** Today’s Dives ***
Okianwa Main Island
1. Inanbishi
2. Inanbishi
Objective: Fun Dives
Weather: Windy
Air: 14C (57.2F)
Water: 21C (69.8F)
Suits: 5mm one piece + hood


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Going South for diving!

Akira took today’s diver all the way south of the Okinawa Main Island, because of the strong wind from North.
It was a long way of driving, but worth it!
Good ‘labyrinth dives’!
*** Today’s Dives ***
Okianwa Main Island (South)
1. Kinsuma
2. Kinsuma
Objective: Fun Dives
Weather: Windy
Air: 18C (64.4F)
Water: 21C (69.8F)
Suits: 5mm one piece + hood



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Diving at Gorilla Chop!

Because of very strong wind from north, Swift did not go out… Akira and today’s diver headed north to Nago to have shore diving.

*** Today’s Dives ***
Okianwa Main Island (North)
1. Gorilla Chop
2. Gorilla Chop
Objective: Fun Dives
Weather: Flat
Air: 18C (64.4F)
Water: 21C (69.8F)
Suites: 5mm one piece + hood
They saw coral reef with a bunch of fish, and  beautiful white sandy bottom adding some flavor.
Hmmm, the weather doesn’t look good… where can we go tomorrow?


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Advanced Diver Course in the Kerama!

We had a student finishing up his Advanced Open Water Course, today.
It was warm and very nice weather condition for going out to dive the Kerama Dive sites.
*** Today’s Dives ***
The Kerama Islands
1. Nozaki (Tokashiki Island)
2. Toma (Zamami Island)
Objective: Fun Dives
Weather: Flat
Air: 20C (68F)
Water: 21C (69.8F)
Suites: 5mm one piece + hood
After enjoying thousands of colorful fish swimming around in Nozaki, we moved to Toma, where we found some big moray eels, nemo, and garden eels.

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We saw two Whales! – Kerama Dive Trip

Today, we had an international team of divers on our boat again.
*** Today’s Dives ***
The Kerama Islands
1. Kuroshima South
2. Toma (Zamami Island)
3. Ariga Cable (Tokashiki Island)
Objective: Fun Dives
Weather: Flat
Air: 20C (68F)
Water: 21C (69.8F)
Suites: 5mm one piece + hood
The sun came out today, which made our surface interval warm and nice.
We had a diver working on his Advanced Open Water certification, one trying DPV (Diver Propulsion Vehicle – Underwater Scooter) Speciality, and a group of researchers from OIST in Onna Village enjoying their weekend diving.

As a PADI 5 Star Dive Center, we can provide a variety of certification courses. Underwater Scooter is one of the popular ones. We will be starting our Enriched Air Course (for Nitrox diving) soon!

We saw two humpback whales on the way to the Keramas! They were a little shy – they went back down in the water and didn’t let us take a picture…

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Nice day of diving – Keramas

Hi Miho’s here.
Today, we took our boat to the Kerama Islands.
The ocean was very calm, which made our one-hour boat ride very smooth. On the way there, some other boat seemed like watching whales, so we stopped as well, but the whales dove down deep, so we couldn’t see them.
We had Cameron from Tokyo, diving with me.
Naoki and Naoji had three more dives also from Tokyo area, doing their deep dive speciality courses.
*** Today’s Dives ***
The Kerama Islands
1. Kuroshima South
2. Toma (Zamami Island)
3. Marina 225 (Kadena)
Objective: Fun Dives
Weather: Flat
Air: 20C (68F)
Water: 21C (69.8F)
Suites: 5mm one piece + hood

The visibility in the water was very good – usually it gets better in winter.
After two dives at the Kerama Islands, we headed back to the Okinawa Main Island, to dive the Marina 225.

We had quite a bit of dive sites today- from a good viz ‘wide’ dive at Kuroshima, ‘macro’ dive at beautiful white sand Toma, and Marina 225 with a huge table coral and healthy reef by the Main Island.
More pictures coming soon!

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Good dives in the Keramas!

The wind calmed down a lot – we went to Kerama Islands for diving trip today!

*** Today’s Dives ***
The Kerama Islands
1. Ariga Cable (Tokashiki Island)
2. Toma (Zamami Island)
3. Kuroshima South
Objective: Fun Dives
Weather: Flat
Air: 16C (60.8F)
Water: 21C (69.8F)
Suites: 5mm one piece + hood
Today, we had Roger from Australia.
He used to be a NAUI Instructor, teaching at the ocean around Sydney.
He is 69 years old now – he has been diving 20 years before I was born!! Oh my god, I can’t even imagine how the diving was that long time ago…..
The picture is a pink leaf fish at my favorite rock at Toma. We used to see white ones here until last summer, and all of a sudden we only see this pink one. Leaf fish shouldn’t change their colors according to where they live. Then, this one is different from the ones we used to see? Hmmm…
At Kuroshima South, we enjoyed the very healthy reef and dynamic landscapes.
The coral in the picture is Pocillopora damicornis.
Usually, if you look close, you can find coral crabs hiding in there, or some gobies.
We saw many fisiliers, tunas, macros, and purple queens swimming around.
Tomorrow should be another good day for taking a trip to the Kerama Islands. The wind and waves will calm down a lot.
Maybe we can see whales!

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Photo Dives – Okinawa Scuba Diving

Hi Miho’s here.
Today, I went out diving with Naoki and Naoji to explore our dive spot , Inanbishi to practice underwater photo shooting.
The one above is by Naoji – it’s a silhouette of a whip coral goby. They are tiny, like 3cm long.
You can find many whip corals and sea pens here.
They have tiny shrimps or gobies living on them.  Don’t forget to go close and find them!

This one is by me… Not so good.
It’s a pigmy sea dragon.
It moves in between a couple of rocks to live on, but usually easy for us to find it. But very hard to take a picture – especially it was surgy today.
Here is another interesting picture – can you tell what it is?
 
Be careful, they are very poisonous – this is why you don’t want to tough anything in the ocean, including stones….

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Dive Site Research – Okinawa Main Island

Today, Naoki and Akira went out diving with our boat, at Inanbishi to have another dive site research.
The picture on the left is a shrimp goby – which we can observe many kinds here.
On the right is a pair of banded pipefish.

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Blue Ribbon Eel at Inanbishi – Okinawa Scuba Diving

Today, we had another good dive at Inanbishi.
Although the dive spot is so close to the Main Island, we have a variety of sea life here.
The most popular one is this Blue Ribbon Eel, which has been living here for some years.  Right now, he (she??) is at around 25m deep, a little far from where we always anchor the boat, so you need to be a good diver to go watch him (her??) and take good pictures.

*** Today’s Dives ***
Okinawa Main Island
1. Inanbishi
2. Inanbishi
Objective: Fun Dives
Weather: Flat
Air: 17C (62.6F)
Water: 22C (71.6F)
Suits: 5mm one piece + hood

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Sunabe diving and dive site research at Inanbishi

Today, Naoji took two girls diving at Sunabe reef,  near by our shop in Chatan.
Naoki and Akira dove Inanbishi to do some dive site research.

Whenever we have free time, we just put our gear on and explore the dive sites even we have dove there many many times.
The ocean has different face each time we dive there – we can always find something new and interesting, that’s why we cannot stop diving.  The picture is by Naoki. Can you tell where the sea fan crab is?

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A Huge Table Coral – Our secret dive site!

Hi everyone, it’s Miho here.
Because of the change of wind direction, we couldn’t go to the Kerama Islands – instead, we enjoyed exploring our original dive sites.

*** Today’s Dives ***
Okinawa Main Island
1. Inanbishi
2. Red Marker (Kadena North)
3. Marina 225 (Kadena) – drift dive
Objective: Fun Dives
Weather: Flat
Air: 19C (66.2F)
Water: 22C (71.6F)
Suits: 5mm one piece + hood

We were able to watch many shrimp gobies including ‘White-rayed shrimp goby’ and ‘Black-rayed shrimp goby’ today, because the surge was not very strong.  They live in relatively shallow water, here at around 15m deep, so easy to spend some time taking pictures of them.
At the Red Marker, Noboru found a tiny tiny little sea horse mimicking green leaves on the sandy bottom. You need to have very good eyes to even see it!

Then, we moved to our new dive site, Marina 225.

  Takashi named this dive spot this way because of his favorite huge table coral.
Because of water temperature raising caused by global warming and massive outbreaks of crown-a-thorns happend around the Okinawa ocean this past 10-20 years, it seemed like many reefs were dameged quite a bit around the Okinawa Main Island. However, all the corals here, both soft corals and hard corals are big and healthy. You can observe many varieties as well.

Especially this particular table coral (picture above) is big!
It’s 2m25cm big – it seems like these corals survived through many crisis in this ocean.
Be careful, when you dive there, not to land on anything or kick the corals.


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This year’s first Kerama Diving

Hi everyone,

Today, we made it to the Kerama Islands for the first time this year.

*** Today’s Dives ***
Kerama Islands
1. Twin Rocks (Kuroshima North)
2. Toma (Zamami Island)
3. Ariga South (Tokashiki Island) – Drift Dive
Objective: Fun Dives
Weather: Flat
Air: 19C (66.2F)
Water: 22C (71.6F)
Suites: 5mm one piece + hood

We started off at our favorite Twin Rocks at the Kuroshima Island.
We were lucky today, for that Twin Rocks are not usually divable in winter, because of north wind – It’s a summer dive spot.
After enjoying lots of anthies swimming like orange flowers, we went diving around the big pinnacle, to find sharks and big tunas.

We also found this cute sponge crub sitting on a rock. You can enjoy wide- to macro, at this dive spot.
We moved to Zamami, and enjoyed macro photo diving checking out garden eels, pink leaf fish, and lots of cleaner shrimps.
Then, we moved back to Tokashiki, and did drift diving over there. Turtles, beautiful sea fans and many many fusiliers.



  
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