whimsical musings: November 2007

Tita Kimmie and Baby Abby

Fish Outside of Aloha Towers

Atlantis Submarine Waikiki

We drove to Hawaiian Hilton Village and picked up our boat Discovery at the dock. The boat took us a nice little 15 min boat ride out to sea ( we could still see Waikiki very well) and it was there in the middle of the ocean we made our way onto the submarine and down into the belly of it. We had a site map that included 6 major things to see. We went down 60ft to see artificial Reefs. Then we made our way down to 85ft to see pyramid artificial reefs. At 90ft we passed over Pali O Pono and ancient lava flow encrusted with coral reef and saw A Japanese designed artifical reef structures. At 115ft we were at our deepest and saw two MidPacific airplanes that didn't quit make their destination (they were old planes the were purposefully put in the ocean...no one died). We then came back up to around 80ft and saw the YO-257 and the St. Pedro two sunken ships and then we sufaced to the top.

zeahen with diamond head behind him

submarine surfacing

a little more...

a little more....

finally!

open the hatch!

this was right before we started to dive. there was a boat tied to the submarine and we could see the underneath of it from our port hole things.

zeahne looking out the window

close to our deepest 115ft!

me at 115ft

zeahne at 115ft. the submarine had no lights in it. the light you see is natural light from the sun. Pay attention to the color of zeahnes shirt in this picture. As you submerge, the sea water filters each color of the sunlight. Red is the first color to break down. Orange is next at 30ft and starts to look yellow. yellow begins to break down at 60ft and appears green. Red has completely disappeared. at 90ft, green breaks down and begins to look blue and blue is more vibrant.

this is at the surface and is his true t-shirt colors.
cool huh!

diamond head

waikiki and honolulu

zeahne got this cool submarine model. lots of fun in the bath tub!

North Shore with 20 ft waves!
the bonzai pipeline is not labled. this is around the area that it is and i assumed with all the building of media tents that this is the correct spot for the pipe.

on this beach is nice little hill that you can't see in the pictures. the waves don't look that bad because they look like they are right there but they are actually 100ft away.