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The Sea Tiger

The Sea Tiger is a wreck on the south shore of Oahu, Hawaii

The Sea Tiger is a wreck on the south shore of Oahu, Hawaii. It's one of the most popular wrecks in Hawaii as it is easily accessible by boat just outside Honolulu. It's also a large wreck with a lot of swim-throughs and other features making it a really fun dive.

I've done close to a 100 dives on it and was always excited to visit it. The last dive I did on it was December 2005, so things might have changed.

History

The ship was once Chinese, and was seized for smuggling people into the US. It was then sold a couple of times and given the name 'Sea Tiger' by a fisherman. Eventually it was prepared as a wreck by a commercial submarine company in 1999. The company has since gone out of business and now only divers visit the wreck.

Diving

The wreck sits upright at about 36 meters of water. Normally the maximum depth is around 30 meters as the main deck is at about 28 meters. When I dived it, there wasn't much corals on it as it had been sunken 4-5 years prior. But turtles and other marine life is abundant and it is a good spot to see eagle rays.

Visibility is often fantastic - around 100 feet / 30 meters isn't uncommon.

The swim-throughs at mid-ships are very nice
The swim-throughs at mid-ships are very nice
This is the dive site, by far, where I have observed most out-of-air divers.
Because it is a 100'/30m dive so easily accessible, a lot of beginner and holiday divers frequent the wreck.
So if you dive it, keep an eye out on the way up.
Aug 25, 2005