What is this? Sea cucumber? . . . . . . #saipan #islandlife #cnmi #marianas #paradise #itsalwaystheweekend #lifeisbetteronthewater #islandliving #obyanbeach #seacucumber #sealife #beachlife #travel #wanderlust (at Saipan)

2017 April 27 - Saipan / Obyan Beach

There are two ways to dive Obyan - either from the shore or from a boat. If there’s a choice, I’ll take the boat.

This was the first dive of the second day with Cmlc Artha​ (3rd day of diving on Saipan tho). We got ourselves loaded up and headed south. This time not as far as Tinian but we did cruise for a little while because Obyan Beach is actually south of the airport.

It’s a nice dive as well but on this day we had a bit of current. It wasn’t terrible but it did make an easy dive more of a chore. I didn’t get much video that wasn’t wobbly so it’s a short and sweet one. Lots of coral and then sandy spots. Again, nice, however not my favorite of this trip.

Many areas of Saipan still have remnants of the war scattered around different parts of the island. Some pieces can be found on land while others are below water. In either case, you’re not supposed to handle them because there are undetonated pieces that are still capable of exploding. In your face!

藤澤珠紀​ (Tataki) was the DM for the rest of my CMLC trips! Fumio O. dove with CMLC on the first day I was there. He’d end up diving everyday I dove with CMLC but he didn’t do the PMs. Another woman joined us this day. I think her name was Matsuo - it was written on all over her gear. Some days she did 2 dives, some days she did 3. We were also joined by another couple who had close to 1000 dives. They were very nice too. Everyone was cool actually. Eventually I would see the latter two out of the water and in the sky because they were also on Delta flight I took from Saipan to Tokyo :-)

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Gentle Admiration. #Saipan #ObyanBeach #hermitcrab #ocean #IslandLife #simplethings #paradise