After we had all boarded and had been seated, we were asked to "scooch" down because there weren't enough seats to accommodate them. Our excursion began with the crew warning those prone to motion sickness to buy some medicine available in their boat while on our way to the submarine. In sum, this was a lot of money to spend, for not very much of an experience. The jokes were occasionally mildly entertaining but 5 minutes would have been enough stretching it to 45 minutes was torture. All the crew seem to be hard of hearing, because they let him shout the whole time. The operators know there is not enough here to hold your attention for 45 minutes, so there is an on-board comedian screaming over the public address, so loudly as to be painful. The sub had no spotlights to compensate.Ĥ. At this depth there is no color spectrum (only longwave blue light reaches this deep), so everything is a drab blue-grey, whether wrecks or rocks or fish. Because the sunlight is so weak at this depth, the sub has to pass very close to whatever objects you’re supposed to be looking at, so you can hardly appreciate what they are (imagine looking at a Ferrari, but so close that you can only see one square foot at a time).ģ. So the sub has to go down to 100 feet, where there are a few artificial reefs (concrete and pipes) that are really ugly, and a few sunken ships and airplanes (but you’ll only see them for a few minutes, perhaps less than 5 minutes out of the 45 minutes underwater). There are a few fish, a turtle or shark here and there (distant), but no large schools.Ģ. The underwater view is mostly like a dead moonscape. This area of Oahu has almost no living coral or kelp to speak of. I will definitely be recommending this trip to my friends.Most men imagine it would be really exciting to ride a submarine and see lots of underwater sights, and so they drag their wives and children on this ride, but here’s the reality:ġ. We went on the Premium Sub which is larger and seats 64 people, but I'm sure the smaller Sub which seats 48 people is just as good. His commentary was informative but also light hearted with many "Dad jokes". The staff member providing the commentary will let you know if there is anything interesting swimming around to look at. We also saw a shark napping and a couple of turtles swimming around the ship wrecks. Underwater you will see lots of fish around the various structures they have placed down there ie. They have headphones for commentary for passengers who speak Japanese, Chinese, Korean and Spanish. There is plenty of space inside the Sub and the viewing windows are very large. You can stand on top of the Sub and get fab photos of Waikiki. It is quite interesting to see the Submarine surfacing before the boat pulls up to transfer the passengers onboard. From what I could see the operation is run extremely professionally and safely. In this ride they show the safety video which hardly anyone paid attention too. We boarded a boat for a quick 10 minute transfer to the Submarine location. We were picked up at the Hotel next door to our Condo by their shuttle bus and taken to the pier at the Hilton Hawaiian Waikiki Resort. We really enjoyed our Atlantis Premium Submarine experience.
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