Diving Maui Scuba

Maui's best scuba diving is Molokini crater located about 20 minutes by fast boat off the coast of Maui has to be one of the best scuba diving sites in Hawaii and the world. It offers great snorkeling and scuba diving on the inside of the crater with over 100 different species of fish at depths that most free divers can get to, and with the visibility all most always in the 40 to 50 meter range you can see everything from the top making this a truly special place. We did our Maui scuba diving adventure with Ed Robinsons a little expensive but worth the money for the level of attention and overall quality of the experience

For scuba divers the backside wall is awesome with the dive being done as a drift dive on most days. You can really get the feeling of clear water vertigo here when you are looking away from the wall for some of the big stuff that can come by like oceanic manta rays or turtles returning to the surface for some air. Before the first dive we sat on the boat looking over the side into the water and we could see the sharks circling on the bottom at almost 70 meters. As you are swimming on the wall you will see pyramid bluenose and reticulated butterfly’s which are not extremely rare but you really need to look for them in other places in Hawaii if you want to see them. White tip sharks hide out in hole in the wall. We were very fortunate that we witnessed for over10 minutes 2 oceanic manta rays getting cleaned by a school of tang these magnificent graceful creatures get to the be the size of Volkswagens and are fantastic to watch as they swoop and turn while feeding.

After the dives at Molokini crater we went into the area around little Makena beach which is little more famous for being a nude beach, than a premier Hawaii scuba diving site and were rewarded with a find of a dragon moray, arguably the 2 second most beautiful eel behind the blue ribbon eel, which is not found in Hawaii. We saw many other things as well and this dive alone would be worth a dive trip with or without the nudists.