There aren't many wrecks to dive in Hawaii, at least not that endure very long. This is mostly because the islands are just the tipity-tops of enormous underwater mountains in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. The seascape is quite exposed to the elements, especially the Big Island, as it is relatively new land and drops off pretty steeply all the way around except for the very few beaches and bays that exist at this point in time. Mauna Loa is over 30,000 feet with only about 13,500 ft. above water. This is also the reason there aren't very many soft corals. |
I took this picture on my first trip to dive the plane. As fuzzy as it is, I consider it to be a pretty lucky shot considering the depth, the fact that I'm aiming downward and so not what you would call "taking advantage of available light", and that it happened to be right when the guy outside of the plane was in the process of taking a picture of another diver inside the cockpit.
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Sometime later after a storm the tail section broke off at the doorway. It has lasted for several years. Even with the deterioration, as long as you take a frontal shot it still looks very much the same. Once we took a family there for the deep dive of their advanced course. Somehow all 5 of them got inside and crowded into the cockpit while I took their picture from outside. It was such a great, crack-up shot.
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