Scuba Diving Oahu's West Coast: Electric Beach

  The coral reefs and plentiful diving of Maui might be hard to find here on Oahu, at least from the shore, but our first dive since moving here provided lots of thrills. Moray eels, spinner dolphins, turtles, eagle rays, an octopus, three leaf scorpionfish, and five kind of nudibranchs. Not a bad haul as far as marine life is concerned. Check out some of the pictures from the two hour dive at Electric Beach.
  Electric beach is one of the most popular shore dives on Oahu's west coast. I had never been past Pearl Harbor before in that direction so this was breaking new ground. The west coast is very dry with a ridge of mountains coming right down to the water. Very beautiful, especially when you pull into the parking lot and immediately see spinner dolphins playing just offshore.

1 of 2 Spotted Eagle Rays
Green Sea Turtle, "Honu"
Yawning Scorpionfish
  One unique feature of this spot, is a large factory on the inland side of the road which has two underwater hot water outlets a little ways offshore. Fish gather in the warm water which you can see creating white caps on the surface. There is a lot of power from the outtake flow and we were warned not to get into the jet stream while on scuba because you might be shot up to the surface. It all went well and we found some wild blue dragon nudibranchs huddled around their eggs right on the side of the pipes.

A rarely seen Freckled Snake Eel




Photo by Heidi Miller. We had a fun visit from some friendly Hawaiian Spinner Dolphins on our dive. We could hear them almost the entire time.
Leaf Scorpionfish
Honu number two

Leaf Scorpionfish also


A nudibranch eating eggs of another nudibranch!
Kahuna Nudibranch! (Thorunna kahuna)
Blue dragon nudibranch with eggs


Blue Dragon

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