Instant Reader Report on Diving
Aloha Dive Company in
Hawaii/the big island in
2002/06

by
Vicki Huffman & Al Knight, WI, USA
Report Number 020807125333491

Questions?
Send an email to the author of this report

 many spots in  the Caribbean, Galapagos, Sea of Cortez 

[Unspecified]  

[None]  

Overall Rating

Mike Nakachi, owner operator of Aloha Dive Company, along with First Mate
Earl, is a dream come true.  We met the native Hawaiians in December of
1998, logged 150+ dives since then, and have yet to find a land based
operator that beats their attention to clients. Mike’s enthusiasm for the
rare and endemic fish never stops, nor his excitement at anything BIG.  No
burn out or lackadaisical attitude here.  

Want to go on the Manta Ray night dive?  In 1998 he advised us to cancel
unless we just wanted a straight night dive, mantas hadn’t been sighted in
a month.  This June, he asked if we wanted to add it to our already booked
five days of diving as the mantas were back (and boy were they…this is
indescribable, just go do it for yourself….and Earl knows how to make the
Mantas leave the 45 other divers and swoop incessantly right overhead ADC’s
six divers).

You say that you  like to fish?  Earl and Mike set up two fishing rods in
holders during the surface intervals on remote southern dives and four
(35-40 pound) ono were caught over two days.  Bonus:  Earl’s folks have a
restaurant in Kona and Earl makes a great black bean sauce to accompany the
ono!

Of course there are Buffy’s famous cookies (three kinds) for snacks, but
it is the frog fish, flame wrasse, juvenile dragon wrasse, Titan and Black
Leaf scorpion fish, octopus, red striped pipefish, hammerhead sharks,
turtles, etc. that Mike and Earl find that make us want to dive with these
guys again!
 

Questions?
Send an email to the author of this report

Note: The information here was reported by the author above, but has NOT been reviewed by Undercurrent prior to posting on our website. It is presented here to provide Undercurrent readers with timely information on dive operations worldwide. The material may contain errors, typos, ... Please report any major problems by writing to us and referencing the report number above. An edited version of this report will likely appear in the next Travelin' Divers' Chapbook, which will be sent to newsletter subscribers and published online for Online Members.