The Boat Honolulu

... only 2 hours time. After living on a ship now for a week, and having one boat drill, and the chaos in trying to get off the boat in the morning, 9 minutes is a blink of an eye, and two hours is about the time of a yawn. It was hard to imagine such chaos ...

... Harbour and Honolulu.  This began at 7:00am.  We first headed out to Pearl Harbour and reserved a spot on the boat out to the USS Arizona Memorial, and then headed over to the USS Bowfinn (A WW2 Submarine).  We were actually allowed ...

... you really go fast in those things, and fly over the waves.  There was a couple times when we got air, and my feet left the boat deck.  So rad!!!  We went up and down the waters in front of Waikiki for the duration of the cruise, and had ...

... Squadron". They say time heals all wounds, but memory lives on. The boat ride back to the harbor was uneventful and everyone on the boat was very quiet and thoughtful. We gathered our bags from the "baggage security" vendor and headed back to the car, ...

... and is gigantic, even after being on Infinity. Pull up alongside the Arizona Memorial and from that moment until we get back on the boat I am on the verge of tears.  Even typing this now over six years later still causes me to well up. It is just so ...

... camps were there from the different sites so there were a lot of kids running around. Since my group is so young they can't ride all the boat stations so we had to fill in a lot of free time to keep them occupied. So I let them just wade in the water, ...

... those fishermen) which was pretty special. If anyone ever comes here i would very much recommend the tour, it was first class. After the boat trip we decided that nothing else was going to come close it, so we spent the afternoon lazing in the sun on ...

... and a puffer fish, trumpet fish not to mention some scary looking moray eels! The hardest parts were getting in and out of the boat, in particular jumping off the boat for the first time as everything you learnt goes straight out of your head!The dives ...

Oh shit!     29 cruises, 203 days, a whole bunch of hours!  finally off the boat.  as great as the job is, the vacation is 914 times better.  So me and mr. Siefers' contracts are up,  hit up bambu bar say goodbye to my ...

... . 7th Dec 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour, forces US in to WWII. The USS Arizona sank in 9 minutes with 1177 on board. The boat is still seeping oil which you can see on the surface of the water. Sunset cocktail at the beach listening to live ...