OUR CREW

Hometown: New Canaan, Connecticut
Favorite Kona dive site: Yes
Favorite marine animal: Octopus. No, wait – nudibranchs. No, wait – blackstripe coris. No, wait – scrawled filefish. Okay, pretty much all of the animals.
Favorite local restaurant: Kaimana Kitchen
Favorite quote: “When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion.” Abraham Lincoln
Favorite topside activity: Topside? What’s topside?

Hometown: North Bend, Oregon
Favorite dive site: Golden Arches
Favorite marine animal: Seahorse
Favorite local restaurant: The Coffee Shack
Favorite Quote: “Just keep swimming.” -Dory
Favorite topside activity: Backpacking up a mountain to sleep under the stars and watch the sunrise.

Hometown: Kirchheim/Teck, Germany
Dive Site: Outhouse (Drift)
Marine Animal: That is a difficult one, if I have to decide: Octopus
Restaurant: Pueo's Osteria, Waikoloa Village
Quote: Be realistic, try the impossible (Che Guevara). - It worked out so far :-)
Topside: Traveling, reading bloody thrillers, enjoying nature and Excel sheets (haha)

Hometown: Darien, New York
Favorite Dive Site: The Hive
Favorite Marine Animal: Octopus
Favorite Local Restaurant: The Fish Hopper
Favorite Quote: “There are old divers and bold divers, but there are no old bold divers.”
Favorite Topside Activity: Shopping for and researching dive gear.

Hometown: Attigony, France
Favorite Kona dive site: Touch of Gray
Favorite marine animal: Dolphin
Favorite local restaurant: Umeke’s
Favorite quote: “Live and Let Dive.”
Favorite topside activity: Playing music

Hometown: Somewhere in the middle of the country
Favorite Kona dive site: Tubastrea Tunnel
Favorite marine animal: Spanish Dancer
Favorite local restaurant: Quinn’s Almost by the Sea
Favorite quote: “If you’re not living on the edge, you’re taking up too much room.” Grandma
Favorite topside activity: Hanging out with my wife, doing nothing or anything at all.

Hometown: Jackson, Wyoming
Favorite Kona dive site: Touch of Gray
Favorite marine animal: Tiger shark/Godzilla
Favorite local restaurant: Da Poke Shack or Sushi Rock in Hawi (it’s worth the drive!)
Favorite quote: “Be excellent to each other. Party on dudes.” Bill and Ted
Favorite topside activity: There are topside activities?

Hometown: Santa Cruz, California
Favorite Kona dive site: Twin Sisters
Favorite marine animal: Octopus
Favorite local restaurant: Annie’s
Favorite quote: “When one tugs on a single thing in nature, they find it attached to everything else on earth.” John Muir
Favorite topside activity: Slapping da bass

Hometown: Fargo, North Dakota. You betcha!
Favorite Kona dive site: Eel Cove
Favorite marine animal: Nudibranchs and other teeny invertebrates
Favorite local restaurant: Mi’s Waterfront Bistro
Favorite quote: “Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” Abraham Lincoln
Favorite topside activity: Hiking and bird watchin up mauka with the dogs

Hometown: Birmingham, England
Favorite Kona dive site: Golden Arches North
Favorite marine animal: Mantis shrimp
Favorite local restaurant: Big Island Grill
Favorite quote: “It’s so fluffy! I’m gonna die!”
Favorite topside activity: Ballet

Hometown: San Leandro, California
Favorite Kona dive site: Freeze Face
Favorite marine animal: Frogfish
Favorite local restaurant: 808 Grindz
Favorite quote: “The best way to observe a fish is to become a fish.”
Favorite topside activity: Hanging out and exploring with Nalu

Hometown: Oak Ridge, TN
Favorite Kona dive site: High Rock
Favorite marine animal: Tinker’s butterflyfish
Favorite local restaurant: Merriman’s (Waimea)
Favorite quote: “If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.” Carl Sagan
Favorite topside activity: Cooking

Hometown: Montreal, Canada
Favorite Kona dive site: The last site I dove, for the first time
Favorite marine animal: Raccoon butterflyfish
Favorite local restaurant: Sansei
Favorite quote: “I feel a lot more like I do now, than I did 10 minutes ago.”
Favorite topside activity: Anything with Miki

Hometown: Bloomington, MN
Favorite Kona dive site: Suck’um Up
Favorite marine animal: Humpback Whale/Monk Seal
Favorite local restaurant: Quinn’s
Favorite quote: “Life is really simple but we insist on making it complicated.”
Favorite topside activity: Hiking, Bowling and Stargazing.

Hometown:  Kirchheim unter Teck, Germany

Favorite Kona dive site:  Suck ’em up/Big arch

Favorite marine animal:  Harlequin shrimp/frog fish/shark

Favorite restaurant in Kona:  Kona Brewing Company

Favorite quote:  “Don’t dream your life, live your dream.”

Favorite land-based activity:  hiking, beaching, camping, editing videos

Hometown:  Torrance, CA
Favorite Kona dive site:  Black Hole
Favorite marine animal:  Flamboyant cuttlefish
Favorite local restaurant:  Broke da Mouth
Favorite quote:  “Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.”
Favorite land-based activity:  Land??

Hometown:  Tuscon
Favorite Kona dive site:  Pyramid Pinnacles
Favorite marine animal:  Cuttlefish
Favorite local restaurant:  Loko Wraps
Favorite quote:  “Do all the interns get glocks?”
Favorite land-based activity:  Travel the island and not fall in lava

Hometown:  Bismarck, ND

Favorite Kona dive site: The Dome

Favorite marine animal:  Whale shark

Favorite local restaurant: Original Thai

Favorite quote: Dress like the shark you want to see in the world!

Favorite land-based activity:  Land-based?

Hometown: Hawaiian Ocean View Estates, Hawaii
Favorite Kona dive site: Dog Beach
Favorite marine animal: Katie
Favorite local restaurant: Big Jake’s BBQ, because bones
Favorite quote: “You can come!”
Favorite topside activity: Wandering and getting other dogs lost

Hometown: Kainaliu, Hawaii
Favorite Kona dive site: Dog Beach
Favorite marine animal: Goatfish
Favorite local restaurant: Outback Steakhouse, because bones
Favorite quote: “Time for bed!”
Favorite topside activity: Sleeping on a lap. Or in a sunbeam. OR…sleeping in a sunbeam on a lap!

Hometown: Kailua Kona, Hawaii
Favorite Kona dive site: Dog Beach
Favorite marine animal: Bird wrasse
Favorite local restaurant: Ruth’s Chris, because bones
Favorite quote: “Let’s go for a hike!”
Favorite topside activity: Chasing coconuts on da beach