Manta Ray Night Dive off Kona, Big Island, Hawaii, Aug 7, 2013.
This is a video clip of a Manta Ray night dive that James and I went on with Big Island Divers in Kona, Hawaii, on 7 Aug 2013. James and I appear in the first half of the video side by side. We are both wearing gloves and have dark rimmed masks -- James a two pane mask and me a single pane mask.
This was the most amazing dive we've ever done up to this point. The dive site is just offshore of Kona International Airport in Kona, Big Island, Hawaii. We were in 35 to 40 feet of water just sitting on the bottom. The first 10 minutes was slow, but then there were non-stop Mantas coming at us from all directions for the next 50 minutes. The lights attract plankton and small shrimp that the Mantas vacuum up as they swim along. Sometimes -- as seen in this video clip -- they loop over the same divers several times until they've cleaned a place out before moving along.
This was the most amazing dive we've ever done up to this point. The dive site is just offshore of Kona International Airport in Kona, Big Island, Hawaii. We were in 35 to 40 feet of water just sitting on the bottom. The first 10 minutes was slow, but then there were non-stop Mantas coming at us from all directions for the next 50 minutes. The lights attract plankton and small shrimp that the Mantas vacuum up as they swim along. Sometimes -- as seen in this video clip -- they loop over the same divers several times until they've cleaned a place out before moving along.
Diving the "Muskie" off of Brockville, Ontario, Canada on Jun 29, 2013.
James and Leonard on the “Muskie” wreck 92 feet down in the St Lawrence River off of Brockville. You can see James quite a bit, but Leonard was the videographer with his new GoPro Hero3 Black (with magenta colour correction filter for green water) so you don’t see him at all (except for his hand when he sampled the bottom and reached out for a sucker swimming towards him). You can change playback quality to 720p HD for better viewing.
At the start of the dive, they encountered a large school of Smallmouth Bass in the gravelly bottom on the upstream side of the wreck. They also encountered a large school of suckers on the downstream side of the wreck.
See http://www.divermag.com/muskie/ for more on the "Muskie".
At the start of the dive, they encountered a large school of Smallmouth Bass in the gravelly bottom on the upstream side of the wreck. They also encountered a large school of suckers on the downstream side of the wreck.
See http://www.divermag.com/muskie/ for more on the "Muskie".