Dive Review of Jack's Diving Locker/Outrigger Kualoa Beach Resort in
Hawaii/Kona Coast

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Jack's Diving Locker/Outrigger Kualoa Beach Resort, Dec, 2011, by Michael Traylor, TX, US ( Contributor 15 reports with 2 Helpful votes). Report 6403.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations		Food
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity
Dive Operation		Shore Diving
Snorkeling	N/A
Overall Rating
Value for $$
Beginners
Advanced
Comments	Jack's is a large shop and dive operation and my group of about 20 fitted easily onto the boat. Keller, the divemaster, and the crew were professional and helpful. Oxygen and first-aid supplies were available along w/ life jackets. One can rent anything needed. Snacks and sandwiches were served during the surface interval between dives as well as cool water and juice. However, divers were required to find their wetsuit after it was rinsed and all the rest of their kit from the tanks and place them in their mesh bags (divers' own) before the boat docked; I haven't encountered this anywhere else. The divemasters handed out business-sized cards after each trip w/ their names and the sites we dove. The reefs were healthy-looking w/o any fans or gorgonians. Lots of reef fish of all types as well as the featured Flame Angel. Critters were hard to find. Very few big fish. Visibility is not as good as many Caribbean locales. The highlight is the night dive w/ manta rays doing aquabatics as they filter feed the plankton attracted by the divers' lights. It's not like the consecration ceremony in "Parsifal", but rather scores of divers draped all over coral heads along w/ many more snorkelers looking down from above. It is also a bit annoying to have more people loaded onto an already crowded boat for this one dive. I also recommend the Expedia "Local Experts" scattered around the resorts for the best deals on shore excursions (and there are some very good ones).
Websites	Jack's Diving Locker
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	501-1000 dives
Where else diving	Cozumel, Costa Rica, Galapagos, Fiji, Bahamas, Bonaire, La Paz, Belize, Caymans, Maldives, Texas Flower Gardens, Roatan, Palau, etc.
Closest Airport		Getting There
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny, dry	Seas	calm, surge, no currents
Water Temp	76-78°F / 24-26°C	Wetsuit Thickness	3
Water Visibility	40-60 Ft/ 12-18 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions	Try to surface after 60 min. on a couple of dives due to time needed to reach the next site.
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	yes
What I Saw
Sharks	None	Mantas	1 or 2
Dolphins	Schools	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	> 2	Whales	1 or 2
Ratings 1(worst) - 5 (best):
Corals		Tropical Fish
Small Critters		Large Fish
Large Pelagics
Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Subject Matter		Boat Facilities
Overall rating for UWP's		Shore Facilities	N/A
UW Photo Comments	There were large dedicated rinse tanks on the boat with a modest-sized dedicated table.

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Dive Review of Jack's Diving Locker/Outrigger Kualoa Beach Resort in Hawaii/Kona Coast

Jack's Diving Locker/Outrigger Kualoa Beach Resort, Dec, 2011,

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Dive Review of Jack's Diving Locker/Outrigger Kualoa Beach Resort in
Hawaii/Kona Coast