Staff Blog
Panari manta dive!
Weather : Cloudy Ground Temp : 28℃ Water Temp : 28℃ Wind : Northeast (5m/s) Swells : 2.5m Dive Points (Visibility) ☆ Potato Reef, Taketomi (12m) ☆ Submarine, Taketomi (15m) ☆ Manta Point, Panari (15m) The weather has been unstable these days, and the wind picked up a bit. We had some swells and the sea condition was a
Back to the rainy season…?
Weather : Cloudy Ground Temp : 29℃ Water Temp : 28℃ Wind : Northeast (4m/s) Swells : 1.5m Dive Points (Visibility) ☆ Manta City, Ishigaki (18m) ☆ Sukuji Bay Gurukun Reef, Ishigaki (15m) ☆Osaki Purple Queen Reef, Ishigaki (12m) Are we back to the rainy season…? The rainy season usualy ends around June 20th, so it should be
Half way through June…
Weather : Cloudy sometimes rainy Ground Temp : 28℃ Water Temp : 29℃ Wind : Northeast (8m/s) Swells : 2m Dive Points (Visibility) ☆ Garden Eel Paradise, Taketomi (15m) ☆ Manta Point, Panari (25m) ☆Nakamoto Cave, Kuroshima (15m) It rained all through the night, but cleared by the time of cruise departure today. Our dives today were around Taketomi,
As requested
Weather : Cloudy sometimes rainy Ground Temp : 31℃ Water Temp : 30℃ Wind : South (10m/s) Swells : 3m Dive Points (Visibility) ☆ Manta Scramble, Ishigaki (30m) ☆ Manta City, Ishigaki (20m) ☆Nagura Bay Coral Garden, Ishigaki (15m) As we had strong request for mantas, we made two dives around Kabira! Ka-chi-bai (seasonal south wind) was
Iriomote and Barasu island
Weather : Sunny Ground Temp : 32℃ Water Temp : 29℃ Wind : South (5m/s) Swells : 1.5m Dive Points (Visibility) ☆ Coral Village, Kohama (25m) ☆ Barasu Island East (35m) ☆Barasu Island North (30m) Our dive boat Blue Swan was on one day maintenance, so we joined our neighbor shop Yuimare for our dive cruise. Our dive cruise
Surrounded by cloud of Luminous cardinalfish
Weather : Cloudy Ground Temp : 30℃ Water Temp : 28℃ Wind : South (5m/s) Swells : 1.5m Dive Points (Visibility) ☆ Nagura Bay Coral Garden, Ishigaki (18m) ☆ Osaki Purple Queen Reef, Ishigaki (18m) ☆ Manta City, Ishigaki (20m) It was cloudy and maybe the ground temperature was a touch lower than yesterday, but it was hot nonetheless
Three dives around the north
Weather : Sunny Ground Temp : 32℃ Water Temp : 28℃ Wind : South (8m/s) Swells : 2m Dive Points (Visibility) ☆ Sakieda Big Arch, Ishigaki (20m) ☆ Manta City, Ishigaki (20m) ☆ Yonehara Double Reef (18m) Ka-chibai, the seasonal summer south wind started to blow, and the wind was getting strong from the south. So we cruised north
Almost summer!
Weather : Sunny Ground Temp : 32℃ Water Temp : 28℃ Wind : South (5m/s) Swells : 1m Dive Points (Visibility) ☆ Kayama North, Kayama (16m) ☆ Yonara Channel, Iriomote (12m) ☆ Yonara Channel, Iriomote (25m) It is almost summer here in Ishigaki… It is over 30C everyday, and humidity is 85-90%! Our staffs use the word “HOT” for
Mantastic!
Weather : Sunny Ground Temp : 32℃ Water Temp : 28℃ Wind : South (5m/s) Swells : 1m Dive Points (Visibility) ☆ Osaki Purple Queen Reef, Ishigaki (15m) ☆ Sakieda Big Arch, Ishigaki (18m) ☆ Manta City, Ishigaki (18m) After several days of no mantas, we finally got to see them!!! We had a little more breeze that
Welcome to Ishigaki!
Weather : Sunny Ground Temp : 31℃ Water Temp : 28℃ Wind : South (5m/s) Swells : 1m Dive Points (Visibility) ☆ Slender Sweeper Reef, Taketomi (15m) ☆ Nakamoto Cave, Kuroshima (20m) ☆ Manta Point, Panari (18m) Almost all the guests today were from Hong Kong – welcome to Ishigaki everyone! Our dives today were around Taketomi, Kuroshima
