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Naoki had some good dives today at Kerama Islands – here is one good shot of the day.
Green Sea Turtle having a lunch time!
When they start eating, they don’t care divers watching or taking pictures of them.
Picture time ~ !!

Miho

We had fun in the sun in the Kerama Islands!
Today, we had English teachers from Fukuoka, trying out their first time scuba diving (3 of them), with Marie doing her Refresher Course.

***Today’s Okinawa Dive Site Info**
Kerama Islands

1. Akaya – Coral Garden (Gishippu Island)
2. Tamana Farm  (Gishippu Island)
3. Light House (Zamami Island)

Objective: Boat Dives
Weather: Mild South Wind
Air: 32C (90F)
Water: 29C (85F)
Visibility: 30m + (100ft)
Suits: 3mm / 5mm one piece

Everybody got to see a green sea turtle at Tamana Farm!
Even, the one I saw with Yannick and Hugh was trying to eat my fingers – that was funny.
Marie and I saw a cute little baby fish of Black-and White Snapper (yes, I looked up for the English name), which was just about 1cm. So cute!
Tasia saw many Anemonefish as well!

Thank you everybody for coming out diving with us! Hope you guys are having fun in Ishigaki!

Today, me and Naoji took a group from Tokyo and the states for diving in the Kerama Islands.

For most of them, it was their first time diving!

***Today’s Okinawa Dive Site Info**
Kerama Islands

1. Chishi (Zamami Island)
2. Sand Triangle (Gishippu Island)
3. Ariga Cable (Tokashiki Island)

Objective: Boat Dives
Weather: Mild South Wind
Air: 32C (90F)
Water: 29C (85F)
Visibility: 30m + (100ft)
Suits: 3mm / 5mm one piece

Although because of the dive agency and our company regulation, we (dive guides) cannot take pictures of Discover Scuba Diving Program’s participants, today’s groups rented our underwater cameras, so we got some underwater pictures, including the one with a turtle!

Hi everyone,

Today, we had very good dives at north dive spots in Kerama Islands.While ‘Maeda Blue Cave’ is getting popular and famous even outside Japan, I like this cave in Chishi – where we can observe many sea creatures.

Above picture is a goby called ‘Blueband Goby’. They are always in a pair, and eat small planktons from sand. They put some sand in their mouth, take what they want from it, and throw out the rest of the sand from their gills. When one of them eating, one of them looks out for danger, and they take turn. It’s so funny to observe them.

Not only just showing sea creatures, diving with Bluefield, we introduce the sea animals’ behavior, characters, and how to observe. This will be done during the dive briefing and in the water, using

Today, we took our new boat, B-FLAP out.
You can see our main cruiser getting to the dive spot – this picture was taken at Zamami Island.
We had guys from Korea, a Japanese family, and a couple from Switzerland.

***Today’s Okinawa Dive Site Info**
Kerama Islands

1. Chishi (Zamami Island)
2. Sand Triangle (Gishippu Island)
3. Light House(Zamami Island)

Objective: Boat Dives
Weather: Mild South Wind
Air: 32C (90F)
Water: 29C (85F)
Visibility: 30m + (100ft)
Suits: 3mm / 5mm one piece

Hi everyone, we went out for the Kerama Islands with very good divers from Sweden and Japan.

We saw many juvenile fish today:
Razor Fish
Black Damselfish
Yellow Tail Coris
Red Throated Rainbowfish
Clownfish
Yaeyama Blenny

***Today’s Okinawa Dive Site Info**
Kerama Islands

1. Akaya- Coral Garden (Ghisippu Island)
2. Sand Triangle (Gishippu Island)
3. Light House (Zamami Island)

Objective: Boat Dives
Weather: Mild South Wind
Air: 32C (90F)
Water: 29C (85F)
Visibility: 30m + (100ft)
Suits: 3mm / 5mm one piece

Okinawa Dive Shop Bluefield – English Speaking Dive Guide Available

Today, we had Henry, Kaori, and Steven from Hong Kong diving with us!

***Today’s Okinawa Diving Information**
Kerama Islands

1. Tamana Farm (Gishippu Island)
2. Kamigu (Gishippu Island)
3. Chishi (Zamami Island)

(See the Kerama Island Map)

Saw some green sea turtles during the first dive, as well as a tiny tiny commesal shrimp on a whip coral.
Then, explore the Sand Triangle side of Kamigu.

Our last dive of the day was at Chishi. Enjoyed the cave filled with many many Arrow Cardinals- small baby fish. It’s a symbol of Okinawa’s summer here underwater!

by Miho

Dive Shop Bluefield – English Speaking Dive Guide Available!

Saori got a nice picture of a green sea turtle swimming, in the Kerama Islands.

***Today’s Okinawa Dive Site Info**
Kerama Islands

1. Hija Bay (Kuroshima Island)
2. Tamana Farm (Gishippu Island)
3. Light House(Zamami Island)

Objective: Boat Dives
Weather: Mild South Wind
Air: 32C (90F)
Water: 29C (85F)
Visibility: 30m + (100ft)
Suits: 3mm / 5mm one piece

Hi everyone,

Since the wind calmed down alot, we went out for the Kerama Island dive tour.
Here are some photos of turtles and sharks, by Naoji.

***Today’s Okinawa Dive Site Info**
Kerama Islands

1. Tamana Farm
2. Kamigu
3. Chishi

Objective: Boat Dives
Weather: South West Wind
Air: 30C (86F)
Water: 28C (82F)
Visibility: 30m + (100ft)
Suits: 3mm / 5mm one piece

Hello there,

We had two divers from Singapore again!
We headed to the Kerama Islands for some good dives – the visibility was awesome today!

***Today’s Okinawa Dive Site Info**
Kerama Islands

1. Kamigu (Gishippu Island)
2. Akaya – Coral Garden (Gishippu Island)
3. Chishi (Zamami Island)

Objective: Boat Dives
Weather: Mild South Wind
Air: 30C (86F)
Water: 28C (82F)
Visibility: 30m + (100ft)
Suits: 3mm / 5mm one piece

There’s one rock which is my favorite in Kamigu.
There were so many Arrow Cardinals hanging around today. It makes us feel ‘Summer in Okinawa’!

Starting from Kamigu to Akaya,to Chishi, we enjoyed a variety of dive sites today. Turtles, many kinds of coral, and lots of fish!

Damien and Fund liked the ‘Blue Cave’ at Chishi.
There weren’t so many people, we enjoyed diving through the sunshine shower from the top of the cravesse.

Here is a good shot of Crown Fish – a daddy taking care of eggs… Just like the movie ‘Finding Nemo’!
It’s usually very hard to take pictures of Anemonefish with eggs, especially when the sea anemone’s hands are long and when there’s some surge in the water.
I think I got lucky with this shot! You can see the eggs below the fish.

Hi everyone,

It’s Miho here – I have been sick for a while, but think I’m recovering.
Here are the pictures from our dives at the Kerama Islands and Kamiyama Labyrinth.

We saw many many sharks today – and it’s the season for fish to mate and hatch eggs! We saw a school of Surgeonfish mating in a big school.

It was a very nice sunny day!
We dove Labyrinth for caves and swimthrus. It’s so much fun!

***Today’s Okinawa Dive Site Info**
The Kerama Islands & Chiibishi
(see our Kerama Dive Site Map)

1. Paradiso (Maejima)
2. Kuroshima South (Kuroshima)
3. Labyrinth (Kamiyama Island)

Objective: Boat fun dives
Weather: Mild North Wind
Air: 28C (82.4F)
Water: 26C (79F)
Visibility: 30m (100ft.)
Suits: 3mm / 5mm one piece