Underwater Photo Location: Electric Beach

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Electric Beach gets it's name from the power plant across the street. It's located on Oahu's West side. Just take H-1 freeway west until it ends and turns into Farrigton highway. Continue on farrington highway untill you pass the Ko Olina exit. Electric beach will be on the left in just a nother 1/2 mile. Electric Beack AKA Kahe point State beck Park is one of the few places you can dive year round and that makes it also a popular training site. I got my start here back in 1994. Since then i've done hundreds of dives here and seen everything from sharks, dolphins turtles and rays to nudibranches, all the tropical fish to harliquin shrimp. The dives usually range from 20-40 FSW and last about 80 minutes. Water temp ranges from 70 in the winter to 82 in the summer. Vis is from 30-100 feet. The unique thing about this dive site are the two big hot water discharge pipes about 500 feet off shore. The powerplant brings in sea water to cool the turbines then discharges to water back off shore. It's really nice to swim by in the winter time for a warm up.

See you in the sea soon, Stu
Facts about Electric Beach

It is in United States
Electric Beach is in the Pacific.
The typical depth is 0-10 Metres 0-30 Feet.
The typical visibility is 10-30 Metres 30-100 Feet.

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Dive types

Marine Life

by Stuart Ganz
Pin Cushion Shrimp, taken with 60mm macro F5 1/60s IOS200.

by Stuart Ganz
Freckled Sand Eel, taken @ "Electric Beach" on Oahu's west side w/60MM macro.

by Stuart Ganz
AmberJack ~ Got lucky with my macro lens.

by Stuart Ganz
White spotted tobys, a common fish on the Hawaiian reef. Photo taken with Canon 20D 60mm macro F5.6 1/100 ISO200.

by Stuart Ganz
Reflections

by Stuart Ganz
Hawaiian white spotted toby. Endemic to Hawaii. This one likes chocolate cake :)

by Stuart Ganz
Crown of Thorns Seastar

by Stuart Ganz
The Hawaiian Green Sea Turtle. "Honu". This shot was taken at a popular dive site on Oahu's West shore called Electric Beach. You can expect to see turtles there on every dive. Got to love it...

by Stuart Ganz
Please don't touch the Martian Damselfish, they're hot!

by Stuart Ganz
"Honu"

by Stuart Ganz
White tip reef shark, This one has a hook in the mouth and is trailing fishing line. Good thing the hook will rust out and free the line. This photograph was taken as the shark swam under a ledge with my Canon 20D W/18-55 mm lens.

by Stuart Ganz
Cowfish

by Stuart Ganz
Hawaiian Green Sea Turtle, "The HONU"

by Stuart Ganz
I added a little zoom blur to give this Yellow Margin Moray excitement!

by Alan Shepard
A great manta in Hanauma Bay, Oahu.

by Stuart Ganz
Moorish Idols

by Stuart Ganz
Kangaroo Nudibranch

by Stuart Ganz
Crowned Toby - Who wouldn'd love a face like this?

by Stuart Ganz
Urchin Shell

by Stuart Ganz
Deer in the -well you know :)

by Stuart Ganz
This may be the last thing you see.....

by Stuart Ganz
One of my favorite subjects.

by Stuart Ganz
Pin cushion shrimp

by Stuart Ganz
Crown of Thorns

by Stuart Ganz
Taken with 60mm macro F5.6 1/60s ISO100.

by Stuart Ganz
Caught this Blacksided Hawkfish resting on a coral head. Taken with Canon 20D W/60mm macro F 5.6, 1/125 ISO 100.

by Stuart Ganz
The Hawaiian whitespotted toby is a common fish on the reef. I guess that's why I take some many pictures of the. I got this one today at Kahe beach park, AKA "electric Beach"