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ʻĀhihi-Kīnaʻu Natural Area Reserve includes a coastal lava field and surrounding waters on the southwest coast of the island of Maui, Hawaii. It consists of 1,238 acres on land and 807 acres of ocean along 3 miles (4.8 km) of Maui's southwestern coastline. The reserve includes several popular snorkeling/diving sites and many cultural and geologic sites as well as habi...
By the 1840s, tens of thousands of settlers arrived yearly in Buffalo, New York, in search of passage and opportunities further west. Fast, reliable and often opulent steamers, such as the sidewheeler Albany, carried these passengers across the Great Lakes to rapidly growing cities such as Cleveland, Detroit, Milwaukee and Chicago.
On November 26, 1853, a gale swept ...
Alice's Backside/Back Door dive sites can be found on the north shore of Ginger Island. This 20'-60' site has pillar corals, brain corals, star corals, and abundant with sea creatures. There is a huge sand patch dotted with enormous brain coral and mushroom coral heads.
There are only two mooring buoys and they are often occupied by commercial dive operators so if on...
'Anini Beach is a beach located on the north shore of Kauai. This tranquil stretch of beach protected by Hawaii's largest coral reef and stretches over 2 miles. It is well known for its excellent windsurfing and views of the large coral reef that rings the island. ʻAnini’s waters are well protected, making it a popular spot for paddle boarders and snorkelers.
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"Baby Sandy II" is a B-24J-1-CO Liberator serial number 42-73013. On December 29, 1943 took off from Tarawa Airfield (Hawkins) piloted by 1st Lt. Ivan M. Osborne on a bombing mission against Taroa Airfield in Maloelap Atoll. The weather was good. After releasing their bombs, the formation was attacked by over thirty A6M Zeros.
Here is a good story of what happened.
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Baia dos Porcos (Pig Bay) or Baía dos Golfinhos (Dolphin Bay) is a great place to snorkle on on Fernando de Noronha. It is side by side with Baia do Sancho, so you can see both in the same day.
Each morning hundreds of dolphins usually congregate in this bay. The waters around the island are evidently the most important dolphin breeding ground in the world. The...
Built as a Tacoma-class vessel in 1943, this ship met its fate in May 1964 off San Andrés Island. The crystal-clear waters surrounding Barco Encallado provide an unparalleled diving or snorkeling opportunity.
Beveridge Reef (Nukutulueatama) is a mostly submerged, unpopulated atoll located in the Exclusive Economic Zone of Niue. It has been the cause of several fishing boats running aground or sinking.
The Beveridge Reef is a coral atoll that is approximately 147 miles (237 km) from Niue and 520 miles (840 km) from the Cook Islands. The reef is normally submerged, with a sm...
The Bimini Road, sometimes called the Bimini Wall, is an underwater rock formation near North Bimini island in the Bahamas. Bimini Road is one of the most popular tourist attractions in Bimini because of the mystery surrounding the site.
The Road consists of a 0.8 km (0.50 mi)-long northeast-southwest linear feature composed of roughly rectangular to subrectangular li...
At the tip of 3 mile (4.8 km) long Kaanapali Beach on the Hawaiian Island of Maui is found a popular Cliff Jumping location known as Black Rock or Puu Kekaa in Hawaiian. Black Rock is also a widely visited snorkeling SCUBA Diving and swimming location with countless reef fish, turtles and other sea life dispersed among the rocky outcropping that is below the ocean&rsq...
Snorkeling the Blue Hole off Little Jost Van Dyke Island offers a great chance to view stunning micro-ecosystem.
The Blue Hole is a small area where a volcanic boulder has sunk deep into the surrounding shallow water turtle grass beds and the tides have carved out deeper water around it.
Booby Rock is located off the St John south of Salf Pond Bay. Divers will find lobsters, nurse sharks and angel fish with depths of 30 to 90 feet.
There is 1 mooring bouys for SCUBA day use only. Day use of the park moorings is free.