Jack’s Diving Locker

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Arts + Culture, Hawai‘i Island, Hawai‘i Island Arts + Culture

Q&A with Big Island Scuba Instructor Keller Laros

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A scuba instructor since 1985, Keller Laros joined Big Island snorkel and dive company Jack’s Diving Locker in 1991, and in 2012 also founded the Manta Pacific Research Foundation. Now a Professional Association of Diving Instructors (PADI) master scuba diver trainer, Laros has logged 12,600 scuba dives, and is famously known for disentangling a dolphin […]

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What to Expect from a Night Snorkel with Manta Rays in Kailua-Kona

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Last weekend, I checked something incredible off of my bucket list. I hovered mere inches above a 12-foot feeding manta ray in an otherwise pitch-black ocean at night. It sounds crazy—and maybe it is—but these encounters, offered nightly by dozens of operators in the Kailua-Kona are very safe and very popular. An estimated 80,000 people

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