False Killer Whales

For those of you who don't know us, we spend most of our time working with Lahaina Divers.  We are all captains and scuba diving instructors on the island of Maui.  We've been living out here for almost 7 years.  Anyway, we are out on or in the ocean almost every day, teaching and sharing the ocean with new people all the time.  Well just the other day (9/16/09) we had an amazing encounter with some False Killer Whales.  We got to watch an adult teaching a youngster how to catch a Mahi Mahi, which is an open ocean fish.  It was so cool.   Check it out below...


False Killer Whales from C3 Submerged on Vimeo.

I should also mention that it was a really cool day because we were also teaching a small underwater photography class with David Fleetham.  David Fleetham is a famous National Geographic Photographer that lives here on Maui.  It was really cool to spend the morning with him and get to witness the False Killer Whales with him.  It was awesome to see someone like David Fleetham get just as excited as us to see the rare False Killer Whales.  What a cool guy.

Today Mike got to dive Molokini, and he said it was beautiful.  He ran into the office quickly to say hi to Dan and I and change camera batteries for the Night dive.  He's the captain tonight, but he likes to keep the camera ready just in case something cool swims by the boat.  You never know when a False Killer Whale hunting a Mahi is going to swim by.

Dan had the day off but decided to come into the office anyway for a little while to work on some projects.  I think he was also waiting for me to finish up so that we could go dirt biking today!  I spent the day working on the website projects, linking the blog to the facebook page, linking the Vimeo video's to all the other pages, etc...  It's amazing how this stuff all works, and it's very cool that you can be in touch with so many people in so many places.

All right, it's time to go ride!  Maybe we'll convince my wife, Gwen, to come out and ride with us.

See you tomorrow...

John