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Visit with dolphins while diving in Kona

Louis Pasteur famously noted that, "Chance favors the prepared." On the other hand sometimes you just get lucky. On the second dive of our first day in Kona and on my first dive ever with a camera I just bought last week we had one of those "I've heard about this happening but have never actually seen it myself" experiences. We were at about 60-65 feet at a site a few miles north of Honokohau Harbor on the Big Island of Hawai'i when four bottlenose dolphins including a mother and her calf decided to come hang out with us for a while. Very very cool, and very very laid back. Two of the dolphins spent most of their time rolling around in the sand. I got lucky again when one of the dolphins came up off the bottom, turned directly toward me, and then disappeared upward into the Sun. We told Steve at http://www.wannadivekona.com that we are certain he will deliver similar spectacles for the rest of the week we are diving with him! ;-) For those with an interest in such things, the camera used is an Olympus Tough TG-1 iHS in a PT-053 housing. I was also using an INON UWL-100 wide angle adapter lens which expands the field of view of the camera to something over 100 degrees when zoomed out all the way. That is good because the dolphins were ~big~ and quite happy to let me get good and close! In addition to good video the camera also takes nice pictures. I recommend it. The TG-1 itself can withstand a drop from 2 meters and is waterproof to 40 feet, so if the housing starts to flood it's not end of the world time. My only real complaint is that it lacks a fully manual mode (come on, Olympus, just let me say I want ISO 100 at f/4 for 1/60 instead of making me try to trick it into going there!!!) although it does do a better job than previous versions handling a slave flash. The video is not in strictly the same order in which I took it. I had actually fallen behind the group a bit and was videoing a horned helmet eating a sea urchin. I turned away to begin to catch up with the group and as I did so saw the dolphins come down to our right. I actually caught them on video as I first saw them. (Like I said, sometimes you just get lucky.) Vicki saw them next. The "sleigh bell" sound in the video at that point was Vicki shaking a rattle to get the attention of the rest of the group. (The motor whine noise is just that; the zoom motor on the camera.) Note: When I tried to upload the full quality video it failed in rather ignominious fashion. I'll try again another time.