okinawa dive center
Dive Shop Bluefield

Hi it’s Miho here.

Today, I dove with two girls from Hong Kong at the Whale Shark Dive Spot.
We did one dive in the morning to get used being in the water, and then did a couple of Whale Shark Dives.

Unfortunately, I left my camera home today…
But they should have got some good pictures.

***Today’s Okinawa Dive Site Info***
Okinawa West Coast

1. Inanbishi
2. Whale Shark Dive
3. Whale Shark Dive

Objective: Discover Scuba Dives & Fun Dives
Weather: South Wind
Air: 23C (73.4F)
Water: 23C (73.4F)
Visibility: 15m (50ft.)
Suits: 3mm – 5mm one piece + hood

Hello there,

Today we had good dives in the Keramas.
I dove with a cute couple who are trying scuba diving for the first time.

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

1. Kamigu (Gishippu Island)
2. Dragon Lady (Zamami Island)
3. Nozaki (Tokashiki Island)

Objective: Discover Scuba Dives
Weather: South Wind
Air: 25C (77F)
Water: 23C (73.4F)
Visibility: 30m (100ft.)
Suits: 3mm – 5mm one piece + hood

It was a nice sunny day!

Hi Everyone,

Today was the last day diving with Mike, Hiroe, and Toshi.
Terry joined our team as well – we had good time diving Inanbishi, finding macro creatures.

***Today’s Okinawa Dive Site Info***
Okinawa West Coast (Kadena)

1. Inanbishi
2. Inanbishi
3. Fish House

Objective: Fun Dives
Weather: North Wind
Air: 23C (73.4F)
Water: 23C (73.4F)
Visibility: 15m (50ft.)
Suits: 3mm – 5mm one piece + hood

Here are fantastic pictures by Mike Jimenez, of some rare kinds of nudibranchs we found today.

Other than nudibranchs, we found Oranghtan Crabs, Bubble Coral Shrimps, Flounder, and Sea Snakes.
In the afternoon, me and Mike had a long dive at the Fish House, where we spotted some very rare nudibranchs we had never seen before!

Thank you very much Mike, for beautiful pictures!
We enjoyed diving with you a lot!

Hi it’s Miho here.

The wind shifted – but we have a great Macro Paradice where we can find all kinds of Nudibranchs, shrimps, and crabs.
I had one- on – one Macro shooting dives with Mike again. Enjoyed it so much!

First dive, we shoot off to the deep end of the dive site, the banded pipe fish couple was always there, around the same rock as far as I know for a last 1 month.
There were still many nudibranchs!
The picture on the right hand above is a shrimp that lives on a sea cucumber. It is a huge one, hanging out there this whole winter.

I can never get tired of diving Inanbishi. So many creatures over there.
If you are into macro stuff, ask us about diving there!

Hi there, it’s Miho

I had goood dives with Mike today again.
We took a boat from Seragaki and dove the fantastic dive sites around Manza.

The picture below is from Manza Dream Hole… my favorite dive site!

The entrance of the hole is at 5m deep, and the hole goes out to the drop off at 26m.
The picture is the exit of the hole… covered with countless sweepers.
In the hole there were two flame fire shells, lobsters…

***Today’s Okinawa Dive Site Info***
Okinawa West Coast (Onna Area)

1. Overhead Rock
2. Manza Dream Hole
3. Yamada

Objective: Fun Dives
Weather: South Wind
Air: 28C (82.4F)
Water: 23C (73.4F)
Visibility: 30m (100ft.)
Suits: 3mm – 5mm one piece + hood

Saw many kinds of nudibranchs, shrimps, and all kinds of stuff which I cannot put all the pictures here…

Photos above (three) are by Mike Jimenez. Thanks Mike!!

Hi every one,

Today was another south wind day with good dives in the Kerama Islands.
Here are some photos by Mike Jimenez.

Today’s condition was perfect for doing the Twin Rocks dive around the pinnacle.

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

1. Twin Rocks (Kuroshima Island)
2. Kamigu (Gishippu Island)
3. Tamana Farm (Gishippu Island)

Objective: Fun Dives
Weather: South Wind
Air: 28C (82.4F)
Water: 23C (73.4F)
Visibility: 30m (100ft.)
Suits: 3mm – 5mm one piece + hood

We had Masaaki Harada, our friend photographer on the boat as well.
He was warming up to get prepared for the photo workshop that he will have from tomorrow.

Hi there,

We had good dives again in the Keramas – with the south wind, it felt like summer!
Went through the blue cave, found some turtles, and enjoyed the beautiful coral reef.
The above picture is me, trying to turn the turtles face to the photographers- by feeding the turtle some coral chips. (photo by Mike Jimenez).

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

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

Objective: Fun Dives
Weather: South Wind
Air: 28C (82.4F)
Water: 23C (73.4F)
Visibility: 30m (100ft.)
Suits: 3mm – 5mm one piece + hood

Here are some more underwater photos by Mike.

Hi everyone,

We had fantastic dives in the Kerama Islands today.
The above picture is by Mike Jimenez, my favorite underwater photographer, visiting Okinawa.
You can see how the ray was big, it’s bigger than me!

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

1. Coral Garden – Akaya (Gishippu Island)
2. Sand Triangle (Gishippu Island)
3. Kuroshima North (Kuroshima)

Objective: Fun Dives
Weather: South Wind
Air: 25C (77F)
Water: 23C (73.4F)
Visibility: 30m (100ft.)
Suits: 3mm – 5mm one piece + hood

We saw many sharks today as well!

Hi there,

We had some Japanese girls’ team with Noboru, doing Macro Photo dives.

I had Terry doing a refresh dive session with me.

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

1. Toma  (Zamami)
2. Dragon Lady (Zamami)
3. Marina 225 (Okinawa)

Objective: Fun Dives; Refresh Dive
Weather: North Wind
Air: 22C (71.6F)
Water: 24C (75.2F)
Visibility: 30m (100ft.)
Suits: 5mm one piece + hood

Today, we had another charter boat going out with Akira and Naoji, having a group from mainland Japan, doing snorkeling and discover scuba diving!

Hi, it’s Miho here,

We enjoyed macro photo dives at Inanbishi today.

Here are many pictures… Enjoy!

Tomorrow, we are going out to the Kerama Islands!