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Diving Lehua Crater offers underwater erosional sea caves and arches that will blow your mind. It is the only dive destination in the world where you have an excellent chance to swim with the most endangered marine mammals in U.S. waters, the Hawaiian monk seal.

Mana Crack is an 11-mile long sunken barrier reef that has many different drop points. It’s the furthest offshore dive site in the state of Hawaii and since there are no moorings to tie up to and currents can be strong this dive is always done as a live boat dive. This dive is for advanced divers only.

Hale O Honu is Hawaiian for “House of Turtle” and for good reason. You’ll see lots of turtles here! This is a great, easy boat dive fun for beginners and advanced divers alike.

This is a fun and beautiful dive site set amongst huge underwater boulders that make large caverns. You’ll see lots of schooling fish and some sharks. This is only accessible by boat dive.

Three fingers of lava form the dive site thus its name. It sits right outside the harbor on the island of Kauai and, therefore, is an easy boat dive. This is a great site for all levels of divers with very good visibility.

Just west of the popular dive site General Store, Turtle Bluffs is a turtle cleaning station so be ready to see lots of green sea turtles and reef fish. This site is exposed to open water so there could be some current and this site must be dived from a boat.

Koloa Landing is located in Hanaka’ape Bay, Kauai and is a very popular dive site, especially for scuba instruction. The entry is easy, and there is plenty to see to the left and right of the landing.

This dive site has amazing rock structure, giving lots of hiding places for fish to hideout, making Fish Bowl one of Kauai’s fishiest dives, hence the name. You’ll also see evidence of old lava flows here.

Don’t forget your camera on this dive! Not only is the underwater scenery spectacular, but chances for whale and dolphin sightings on the boat ride out is also high. Sheraton Caverns is located just off Poipu Beach and is relatively untroubled by harsh ocean swells.

The closest wreck dive to Waianae Small Boat Harbor, about 15 min ride. 95ft, remains of crashed passenger aircraft with deep water reef canyons and healthy coral ecosystem