Aloha from the Big Island....

[KonaShawn]

Hello from a new free diver who has "the fever".

Some friends and i have fallen in love with free diving off the beautiful Kona Coastline and as we get more serious about it, i thought it would be a good idea to find a place like this to get more information on technique and safety.

It isnt "dive season" yet, as in prime conditions, but so far my best depth is about 30m. My buddies and i dont really dive solely for depth, though it intrigues us a little. We are more in love with the reef life and landscape under the water. We are truly blessed to live on such a world class island with respects to diving. Our main goal when diving is to find underwater caves, usually old lavatubes. Id say we have easily found about 20 of them. Going through a cave on one breath is very exhilerating the first time through a new one.

I snorkeled a lot for a couple years before really getting to the bottom, now that i have i am completley hooked. There is such a feeling of being one with the ocean...it feels like it was meant to be. Drifting through a cave at 15-20m, seeing green sea turtles sleeping in it, white tip reef sharks, and hearing the humpbacks loud in the background.....it just makes you never want to come up for air.

Aloha

 

[niki090fish]

Hi there!

I loved you message it I can totally relate to you experiences. I am a mad Scuba instructor and Freediver myself,however just starting to take freediving more seriously - hense me taking, in April a course with the Performance Freediving team in Miami. I have only heard wonderful things about the instructors and their teaching abilities rival there own personal abilities at the sport itself. I have had 3 friends that have taken the course and have made not only dramatic improvements in there underwater time but gained imense confidence in understanding the very important saftey aspects of the sport. Freediving is rated as the second most dangerous sport under base jumping. I believe its soooo important we never let our fellow freediving friends down by not knowing how to deal with a blackout situation. Check out their web site, I have a friend that also lives in Kona that is planning to do one of their Kona courses. Also in Kona is Carlos Eyles - One of the best Spearfishermen of his time that is now content teaching people the art. Life is wonderful when it is shared.
All the best in your endevours, I have a wonderfully interesting artilcle I can forward you if you like. Yu are blessed to be in such wonderfully abundant waters.