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Diving at Mala Pier, Lahaina, Maui
Feb. 17th, 2019 09:30 am
The amount of video still unedited from the Cuba trip remains daunting, so I decided to tackle something easier and deal with the footage from diving on Maui, which comes in smaller quantities. At least that way I feel like I'm achieving something!
Mala Pier is a collapsed concerete pineapple loading dock which can be dived as either a shore dive or a boat dive. We dived it on an overcast day with Maui Dreams dive charters - the visibility was poor by Maui standards (good by Puget Sound standards!), especially at the start of the dive, but it improved.
The site has great artificial structure, a wide variety of fish species and a cleaning station where the turtles line up waiting their turn for the fish to eat the algae off them. Conflict can occur between equally oblivious divers and turtles! Watch out for the bluespine unicornfish at 1.57 and the Commerson's frogfish at 2.46.
Mala Pier is a collapsed concerete pineapple loading dock which can be dived as either a shore dive or a boat dive. We dived it on an overcast day with Maui Dreams dive charters - the visibility was poor by Maui standards (good by Puget Sound standards!), especially at the start of the dive, but it improved.
The site has great artificial structure, a wide variety of fish species and a cleaning station where the turtles line up waiting their turn for the fish to eat the algae off them. Conflict can occur between equally oblivious divers and turtles! Watch out for the bluespine unicornfish at 1.57 and the Commerson's frogfish at 2.46.
