Instant Reader Report on Diving
Fathom Five in
Hawaii/Kauai in
2003/01

by
Marc Massari, CA, USA
Report Number 030130150217697

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 All over carribean, Hawaii, Mexico, California 

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Overall Rating

We had been warned ahead of time that the diving on Kauai was not going to
be "anything to write home about", but i thought i would at least
give Undercurrent readers an idea of what to expext. From my research in
Undercurrent, I decided to call Bubbles Below as soon as we arrived.
Unfortunately, they were on vacation, so they referred us to Fathom Five.
We met with the owner, George, and signed up for a couple days of diving.
Make sure you get to know George, he is a charactor, but more importantly,
if you are an experienced diver he will personally take you out on an
advanced trip. Those were the dives to be on. Fathom Five was a pleasure to
dive with. They took care of all of your gear and were very helpful. The
boats are towed from the shop to the docks where you jump in for the ride
to the dive shop. The boats are small, but are fine with six divers. They
have plenty of water and snack abourd for the between dive munchies. If you
are planning a trip to Kauai, make sure you do it during the the time
period they go out to Niihua. We were not there at the right time, but
everyone we talked to said that this is the best diving on all the islands.
The winter swells are too big to go there in the winter, call ahead and
check when they begin those trips. The one thing that bothered me about the
boat was the fact that they anchored in some spots. While diving, i noticed
spots where coral had been broken from anchors. As it is, Kauai is hurting
for coral, but this just makes a bad thing worse. It would be nice to see
the dive companies on the island set moorings on more of the dive spots, or
just drift them.  

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