I also played hide and seek with the marbled shrimps and finally found one who wasn’t too scared by my camera. From the snowball nudibranch to giant spiny lobsters, these were species that you cannot see on the reef. If you are not too claustrophobic, a reward is hiding in the tunnels. I can honestly only recommend diving in the lava tubes to advanced divers with excellent buoyancy control. Without perfect buoyancy there is a risk to bump into the volcanic rock: watch your head and your first stage! We were at all time a couple of meters away from open water, but from a chamber to another there were sometimes narrow swim-through. How would you feel diving where the lava used to flow at 1200☌ knowing on the most active volcanic island in the world? Hopefully, the Kohala Volcano last erupted 120,000 years ago!Īt the dive briefing, our divemaster popped up the question “Is anyone claustrophobic”? Before entering in my first lava tube, I imagined a narrow space, but the caverns we entered were most of the time flat, vast areas with a low ceiling. Scuba diving in lava tubes was the big highlight of my dives with Kohala Divers.
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