Staff Blog
Diving around north of Ishigaki
Weather：Sunny Ground Temperature：32℃ Water Temperature：30℃ Wind Direction：Southwest (8m/s) Swell： 2.5m ☆ Manta City, Ishigaki (15m) ☆ Yonehara W Reef, Ishigaki (18m) ☆ Arakawa Rock Lake, Ishigaki (12m) Southwest wind was strong today, and our dive cruise was a bit rough while moving from a dive point to another. Glad no one had sea sick!
Make sure to bring your sunscreen
Weather：Sunny Ground Temperature：32℃ Water Temperature：29℃ Wind Direction：South southwest (5m/s) Swell： 2m ☆ Nagura Bay Coral Garden, Ishigaki (12m) ☆ Nobaru Drop Off, Iriomote (20m) ☆ Kayama North, Kayama (15m) We warned you that you need sun screen. If you dive multiple days, you will be cooked. Be prepared that immigration officers in
Manta, manta, manta!
Weather：Sunny Ground Temperature：33℃ Water Temperature：29℃ Wind Direction：Southwest (7m/s) Swell： 2m ☆ Sakieda Big Arch, Ishigaki (15m) ☆ Manta Scramble, Ishigaki (18m) ☆ Oganzaki North, Ishigaki (12m) Beautiful sunny day, heading north to Kabira area for three dives♪ The first dive of the day was Sakieda Big Arch, located right next to Kabira
Mid summer!
Weather：Sunny Ground Temperature：32℃ Water Temperature：29℃ Wind Direction：Southwest (4m/s) Swell： 2m ☆ Osaki Purple Queen Reef, Ishigaki (18m) ☆ Yonara Channel, Iriomote/Kohama (20m) ☆ Nobaru Arch, Iriomote (20m) Only Fun Diving program on the boat, and we enjoyed variety of dive styles 🙂 Chromodoris kuniei was taking a walk on the reef.
Getting advanced in your diving skill
Weather：Sunny Ground Temperature：32℃ Water Temperature：29-30℃ Wind Direction：Southwest (1m/s) Swell： 1.5m ☆ Potato Reef, Taketomi (16m) ☆ Nagura Bay Coral Garden, Ishigaki (12m) ☆ Manta City, Ishigaki (18m) Our guests Lum and Gary got certified as Advanced Open Water Divers and Enriched Air Divers at the same time! congratulations! Just like any
500th memorial dive!
Weather：Sunny Ground Temperature：32℃ Water Temperature：29℃ Wind Direction：South (2m/s) Swell： 1.5m ☆ Kayama North, Kayama(15m) ☆ Yonara Channel, Iriomote/Kohama (18m) ☆ Nobaru Drop Off, Iriomote (12m) ☆ Manta City, Ishigaki (18m) 500th memorial dive! What an accomplishment! Congratulations! Beauuuuutiful condition! For the first dive of the day, we cruised west on this
Holy smokes!
Weather：Sunny Ground Temperature：33℃ Water Temperature：29-30℃ Wind Direction：South (4m/s) Swell： 2m ☆ Potato Reef, Taketomi (16xm) ☆ Osaki Purple Queen Reef, Ishigaki (16m) ☆ Manta City, Ishigaki (18m) We could not see any manta in the past couple of cruises, but today was different, and there were mantas from the beginning ’till the end!
Family boat charter day♪
Weather：Sunny Ground Temperature：32℃ Water Temperature：29℃ Wind Direction：South (6m/s) Swell： 3m ☆ Kayama North, Kayama Island (18m) ☆ Nobaru Drop Off, Iriomote (18m) ☆ Manta City, Ishigaki (18m) Our guests today were a German family from Hong Kong for our boat charter♪ Typhoon is now gone, and the weather was great for a charter
Back on the water♪
Weather：Sunny sometimes rainy Ground Temperature：32℃ Water Temperature：28℃ Wind Direction：South (10m/s) Swell： 4m ☆ Nagura Bay Coral Garden, Ishigaki (10m) ☆ Sakieda Big Arch, Ishigaki (20m) ☆ Manta City, Ishigaki (15m) After two days of port closure, typhoon #9 and #10 are now gone, without much damage on the island. Water temperature is
Typhoon Nesat is approaching…
Weather：Cloudy sometimes rainy Ground Temperature：34℃ Water Temperature：30℃ Wind Direction：Northeast (9m/s) Swell： 2.5-5m ☆ Potato Reef, Taketomi (20m) ☆ Submarine, Taketomi (30m) Typhoon Nesat is approaching Ishigaki, and the wind started to pick up gradually. Considering safety, we only had two dives aroud Taketomi south today. Visibility around Taketomi south was fantastic! The
