Marco's Travel Update: AQUOS Team - New Dive Buddies <2.8.2008>

Recently I got the chance to join my good old friend Yuko & her Dive team, who took me to a joint weekend at Izu.
They using the dive shop which is close to my office in Kanda – called Aquos:
http://www.d-aquos.com/shop/index.html

I highly can recommend them to anyone as they have brilliant service, a decent selection of diving stuff and great instructor called Ajima san. He put his whole heart in what he does and really try to take care about everyone to make it an enjoyable dive.

So hear come the main actors:

My dear old friend & colleague Yuko san and her best mates Masami san & Kanae san (from left).

We went Saturday morning to Izu by Shinkansen and started our first dives at Futo from the 2nd beach entry point.
It was pleasant summer day and we where just few diving teams, as most of them went to IOP for a special sunset dive event. We used that chance to enjoy most infrastructure just for us alone ;-)
The visibility was not so bad and also the temperatures where fine about 22 deg.
This dive site has unusual high number of those special anemones I find so funny looking:

The highlight today was definitely the moon fish – so called “mambo” in Japanese – unfortunately he was already dead x-)
We wish you a good (final) rest fellow…

The more lively ones you can find below:

We stayed tonight in a nice Ryokan directly in Futo before we head next day to the famous Mikomoto dive site – you remember the Hammers?!

Even the days before were very promising due to many shark sights, but we weren’t lucky that day.
We could not spot any hammer heads just some more hidden ones – can you find him?

SAD? … Not at all!!!
There is much more to experience than just the hammers – there is the CURRENT!!!
Believe me – it was a really strong current that day which made it a perfect drift dive. I really LOVE current.
Such experience you can hardly find anywhere else around Izu – enjoy it.
Below pictures might give you some idea what I am talking about ;-)