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My husband and I spent three days diving (total of 9 dives) with Lahaina divers. We specifically chose this company for their advanced dive charters as they offered the most options for advanced charters.
The dive shop has captains and DMs that are incredibly professional and love what they do! We were honored to have Brad and Cory as captains and several DMs (Nick, Parker, Brian, TJ, Jess….). All were excellent guides.
The ONLY downside to the shop is that they do not offer pick up/drop off to your resort and cannot store your equipment even if you have back to back days of diving. This means you have to transport your wet gear back to your hotel. They will move your gear back to the shop so you can rinse it off. It was a little disappointing they don’t have the space for storing gear with how much we pay for the charters.
If you are trying to decide on charters:
Cathedrals: truly beginner/intermediate dive, but it was one of the best! The formations were fantastic! The crew divides groups so they are similar in capabilities which makes the dives more enjoyable. Definitely recommend this charter.
Carthaginian: this is an advanced charter because of depth only. Otherwise, it’s incredibly simple. It was 100ft at the bottom. We saw a couple rays and a shark, but other than that, nothing to it. The second dive for this charter, the Mala pier, was what made it worth it because it’s a turtle cleaning station. We didn’t do the Backwall dive, but wish the timing worked out so we could have done that one instead of the wreck charter.
3 Tank: this was one of my favorites. It was a small group of serious divers who wanted to spend the whole day out. The conditions were great, making the drift dives simple and easy, but drift dives can vary immensely depending on currents/conditions. On our last dive, we saw a couple dolphins!
Hammerhead: ok, seriously. They are not joking regarding the conditions. We had a “calm” day with 6-10 ft swells. 1/4 divers got sick. If you are prone to sea sickness, do not recommend. If you aren’t prone, recommend taking Dramamine! Our group lucked out the most: we saw a school of about 12 hammerheads on the first dive and a few on the second. The highlight was a pod of spinner dolphins that came to check us out for about 5 min at the end of the second dive. Absolute highlight of my diving! Please take to heart the warnings regarding the water conditions on this dive! They go regardless, but on our calm day, a fourth of the boat got sick and were miserable. I don’t regret going at all, but I can’t speak for the others.
Bottom line: great experience and only regret is not doing the Backwall (vice the wreck dive). - via 