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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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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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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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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Kerama Diving – Tokashiki and Kamiyama

We went all the way to the south of Tokashiki Island in the Keramas.
Today, we had a student from Open Water Certification Course.
He is very lucky to have the good visibility water in the Keramas for his first dives in his life.

*** Today’s Dives ***
Kerama Islands and Chiibishi
1. Muchizuni In-Reef (Tokashiki)
2. Muchizuni Out-Reef (Tokashiki)
3. Labyrinth (Kamiyama)
Objective: Open Water Dives 1.2.3
Weather: Flat
Air: 19C (66.2F)
Water: 23C (73.4F)
Suits: 5mm one piece + hood
 

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Sharks, Blue Ribbon Eels, and caves… - Kerama Diving

We had good photo dives today.
Started off with the caves of Kamiyama Labyrinth and watched our favorite White tip sharks.
Sharks here are not shy, we spent some time taking pictures of them.
*** Today’s Dives ***
Dive Sites: Chiibishi and Okinawa Main Island
1. Labyrinth (Kamiyama, Chiibishi)
2. Inanbishi
3. Inanbishi
Objective: Fun Dives
Weather: Choppy
Air: 24C (75F)
Water: 24C (75F)
Suites: 5mm one piece

In the afternoon, we moved back to our local sites.
Had two dives at Inanbishi (aka. Anemone Fish Paradice).
Now, we have some Japanese Pigmy Seahorses living on a rock here.  Also, our friend, a Blue Ribbon Eel is still hanging around. We got nice picture of him as well.
In Japanese, Blue Ribbon Eel is called ‘Hana hige Utsubo’ which means ‘Flower Barb Eels’. Interesting.
Anyway, its blue and yellow colors are very photogenic, aren’t they?
Miho


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Exploring ‘the Labyrinth’- Diving in Chiibishi

It was a nice dead flat day, today.
The visibility was great – look at the picture on the left for the crystal clear water of the Kerama Islands. The sunshine from the surface was shining through like a shower.

*** Today’s Dives ***
Dive Sites: Kerama and Chiibishi
1. Kuroshima South
2. Toma West (Zamami)
3. Labyrinth (Kamiyama, Chiibishi)
Objective: Fun Dives
Weather: Sunny and Flat
Air: 24C (75F)
Water: 24C (75F)
Suites: 5mm one piece

For the last dive of the day, we went diving the ‘Labyrinth’ site by Kamiyama Island, Chiibishi. How many swimthrus did we pass? We don’t remember. The shark we always find was still resting at exactly the same place. How nice if we can take a nap in the water…
The picture on the right is from one of the caves from Kamiyama.



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12/12/2009 We heard whales singing!

Today was another good day of diving in the Kerama Islands.
We had two dives in the Keramas, visiting two islands – Kuroshima and Zamami.
Our guest from Poland (living in Japan for 13 years!) said he was not cold at all with his long-john type wetsuit!

It’s still December, but we started hearing humpback whales singing! It will not be too far when we start seeing them – they are surely around here!

*** Today’s Dives ***

Dive Sites: Kerama Islands
1. Kuroshima South
2. Toma (Zamami)
3. Marina 225 (Kadena)

Objective: Fun Dives
Weather: Sunny and Flat
Air: 23C (75F)
Water: 23C (75F)
Suites: 5mm one piece

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