Description: The tour takes you one mile off-shore on the Atlantis Discovery shuttle-boat which offers sweeping views of Diamond Head and the famous Waikiki coastline. From the shuttle, you board the 64-passenger submarine or one of the two 48-passenger submarines where you will descend up to 100 feet to view coral reefs, marine life, two sunken ships, the remains of two airliners, Japanese artificial reef structures and the University of Hawaii’s reef enhancement project. Select tours provide narration in Japanese and Mandarin Chinese. A multi-lingual tape deck is available on all tours.
The inside of the submarine is comfortable with bench seats closely facing several windows. We were really amazed at the brightness 100 feet underwater! It was also interesting to see how colors were affected at such depths. Photos taken at these depths will be very bluish, unless a good flash is used. There were tons of fish around the manmade reefs of sunken boats and planes(this tour didn't take you to any natural ones). We even saw a resident shark and a couple eels there, as well as lots of schooling fish. Videos of a tour are available in their gift shop, along with lots of other memorabilia.
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