Dive Review of Ed Robinson in
Hawaii/Maui

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Ed Robinson: "Still the Best in Maui", Aug, 2018, by Craig Gibson, TX, US ( Sr. Reviewer 9 reports with 3 Helpful votes). Report 10565.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations	N/A	Food	N/A
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity	N/A
Dive Operation		Shore Diving	N/A
Snorkeling	N/A
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Comments	Ed Robinson's Diving (ERD) is a full service operation. They setup your gear and put it on you, but you have to fall into the water on your own. The briefings are good and the crew is excellent. Most have been with ERD for more than 10 years. The boat holds 10 to 12 divers and each group of 4 to 6 have a dive master to guide and point out sealife. They always find some of the neatest critters and have stories about each one. Molokini has excellent coral, fish and sharks. Other sites follow the shoreline where anything can turn up (huge turtles, octopus, rays, flying gurnards, nudibranchs, conch, starfish, frog fish, scorpion fish, etc.). The ERD crew will assess the weather before selecting each dive site and will ask for requests. They also try to cater to the level of the divers onboard and will group those that need more help separate from those that want to get going. The weather generally starts out calm and gets windy after lunch. We arrived on Maui the day before Hurricane Lane hit and went diving three days after. The area is so well protected that you could see no difference in the conditions. We have seen mantas and whales before, but not on this trip.
Websites	Ed Robinson
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	501-1000 dives
Where else diving	Australia, Belize, Bonaire, Dominica, Fiji, Galapagos, Hawaii, Honduras, Malaysia, Maui, Mexico-Caribean, Mexico-Baja, Palau, Philippines, St Croix, TX, FL, NC, NM
Closest Airport	Kahului, Maui	Getting There	Direct from LA, Phoenix, etc.
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny, windy, dry	Seas	calm, choppy, currents
Water Temp	81-83°F / 27-28°C	Wetsuit Thickness	3
Water Visibility	50-100 Ft/ 15-30 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions	They ask that you go up at 500 psi. We needed to keep the dive master in sight as the dives ended in a different location than drop off. However, sometimes the boat will stay moored.
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	yes
What I Saw
Sharks	Lots	Mantas	None
Dolphins	None	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	> 2	Whales	None
Ratings 1(worst) - 5 (best):
Corals		Tropical Fish
Small Critters		Large Fish
Large Pelagics
Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Subject Matter		Boat Facilities
Overall rating for UWP's		Shore Facilities	N/A
UW Photo Comments	Like most day-boats, ERD has a large tub of fresh water designated for cameras, but there is no table or other facilities. I used to take my large camera/strobe equipment and got some great pictures here, but now I am happy with my tiny GoPro.

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Dive Review of Ed Robinson in Hawaii/Maui

Ed Robinson: "Still the Best in Maui", Aug, 2018,

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What I Saw

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Dive Review of Ed Robinson in
Hawaii/Maui