New Hatch

Through the much anticipated wait, i finally received my new Hatch Custom speargun from Mike Hatcher. I was super stoked on the outcome of the gun as it looks great! I got a chance to use it the other day and did  very well with the gun. I got a bunch goats, rois, and a nice size papio.









Its a rear handle gun, white track, white handle, and white reel line.  Im going to post up some more posts of the new gun and how I do with it on future dives.

Sorry for the absence of posts lately, I haven't been able to frequently update lately due to my architecture finals that i gotta dedicate almost all of my time too. I greatly appreciate those of you who check the blog out from time to time though, thanks for your support and patience!
Also i am going to put a contact page up, I am curious on what you guys (the viewers) are interested in seeing on this blog for future posts, and what you guys like that I've posted so far and what not.  Feel free to drop me a pm or email.

Mahalo Nui Loa. Kaoru Lovett

Ulua Time

Diving with my friend Jacob Kahiapo at his home ground. Initially we went out searching for the typical catch of some uhus(parrotfish), goats( goat fish), and ukus(grey snapper). We were joking around about seeing an ulua that day. So we swim out, shot some fish, and there we go we spotted an ulua. We were both excited considering that this could be Jake's first Ulua. Enjoy the vid guys. ps. scroll down for video :P

Jake schooled me, i only got these two.

Jacob Kahiapo, throwing a
 shaka with his Ulua

Mokuleia Dive

Signed up for the Gene Higa Dive tournament today with my dive partner Brandon. The Higa is a dive tournament held by Hawaii Skin Diver once a year. It is a big fish tournament (biggest fish wins) so there's alot of pressure to land that monster fish. The Tournament is a swim out held at Mokuleia on the north shore of Oahu.
This would be the first official tournament that Brandon and I are going to enter, so were pretty stoked and crossing our fingers for good conditions and a lucky catch.
We decided that today was a perfect day to go start scouting for the Higa do to the fact that it was perfect conditions- no wind or waves. We covered lots of ground today but didn't find any spots that would be "contest worthy."
After scouting in the deep for majority of the day we decided to make some dives on the reef to get some fish on the kui. We were fortunate enough to land on some nice size uhus as well as some other reef fish.
Although we did not find productive grounds for the Higa, it still was a good dive and we had fun.

PS. there is also a kumu that was one of the fish that brandon shot, its hidden behind the uhus.

Hatch Customs Hawaii

Today i visited my friend Mike Hatcher of HatchCustomSpearguns. He was kind enough to let  me sit in and watch some of the steps in making a speargun. Mike is currently working on a new gun for me, it's going to  have a white track, white handle, and white line.

Mike was also working on other guns for his other customers. If any of you are waiting on a gun from Mike, then perhaps one of these guns are yours!

These are the guns after mike had branded them with his company logo. They all look really good! 

I was surprised when i saw the amount of labor and intensive care that Mike has to put into his product in order for it to come out as beautifully as they do. Also watching Mike work on my gun made me want to take it out diving more and more.  If any of you are thinking about buying a speargun, i strongly recommend a Hatch. This is my second gun from Mike, the guns are dead accurate and are built with professional craftsmanship. Not only that but every gun comes with a lifetime warranty. Big Mahalo to Mike for all of the work and generosity. Its scheduled to be finished by this tuesday, but i can't wait!

Hawai'i Ocean Expo.

I attended the Hawai'i Ocean Expo this past weekend. The Ocean Expo is an annual two day event held at the Neal Blaisdell Center on Oahu. This event is an Expo where numerous ocean realated buisness gather in one area and set up booths to advertise there product. All types of people from experienced ocean men and women to the beginner ocean go'er gathers together to check out the latest and greatest ocean toys. The Ocean Expo is also an attraction for fishermen as it is also where one of the biggest fishing tournements in Hawai'i holds its weigh in. Fishermen go out the friday before, and spend their weekend trying to catch the biggest Ulua (giant trevally) where they then bring it in to the expo for the weigh-ins on sunday. Some of the booths that i found especially interesting include Naoki's Catch of the Day Gyotaku booth, Mike Hatcher's Hatch Customs booth, Fresh Catch Seafood booth, and the HammerHead Spearguns booth.
I took some pictures for you guys to enjoy.

Naoki presented his Gyotaku work beautifully on the back wall. I especially like the use of multiple boards to divide up the print of the bigger fish , such as the Ahi, Mahi Mahi, and the Uluas.

This was the other part of Naoki's presentation of his artwork,

I thought this shirt that Naoki made was especially interesting. Its a whole bunch of menpachi printed together in the form of a dive flag.

These are a couple of my personal favorites, I find mu difficult
in Gyotaku to truly capture the essence of the fish, Naoki does this very well in this print.

Another favorite of mine, a large kumu not too overloaded with
detail.

Mahi Mahi on the hunt.

Family of Uluas getting lucky with a school of Aholehole

The Alaska adventure booth also used Naoki's gyotaku to
attract viewers to their booth.

The Alaska Adventures picture wall

Boats, Boats, Boats!

Ono grinds at the Fresh Catch booth. I got a pokebowl with
shoyu poke, it was super good!

Diving in Hawai'i

Heres another short Spearfishing video i made. It involves a compilation of a couple dives and a nice 5lb mu! The video also includes a couple of Munu (Jo) Roi, Honu and a bunch of other stuff.  Let me know what you guys think. Enjoy!

Hawai'i Skin Diver Expo

I recently attended a dive expo that is well known throughout the diving community. The Hawai'i Skin Diver expo is a biannual spearfishing event held by Hawai'i Skin Diver, where many local and domestic company get together to advertise, sell, and promote new and old products. Many people attend this expo to pick up cheap gear and to learn about the new products thats are soon to be released. I enjoy attending these events because its a good way to meet new people in the diving community as well as pick up tips and tricks from the more experienced divers. 

I helped my friend and owner of Hammerhead Spearguns, Kevin Sakuda at the expo and worked at the Hammerhead booth. We were selling tons of gear at ridiculously cheap prices and many costumers walked away with smiles on their faces. I also paid for the deposit on my new Hatch gun.!

I apologize that the photos are blurry and not too high quality. I took these photos with my Gopro and unfortunately the lens wasn't properly wiped off before taking the pics:/

 Guns, shafts, masks and everything in between at the hammerhead booth. This is Noah helping out a costumer thats checking out the new Hammerhead Proteus speargun.

 Tons of shirts and apparel as well at the Hammerhead booth.

 Omer booth looking good with their mannequin modeling some wetsuits.

I was very interested in this Gyotaku that has been reproduced on a canvas. This was done by the Gyotaku artist for Red Sea Adventures. I to do Gyotaku art and had a very enjoyable conversation sharing techniques and tricks with this artist. I look forward to posting some of my art on this blog soon.

 Kenny of N3K at the Hatch Customs booth. The top gun is the "rasta" gun in which belongs to kenny. Hatch is showing off his new guns with color matching reel line, tracks, and handles. They looked really good!

 Shane's Amero (blue track blue handle) and a customer looking to pick up a brand new Hatch!

 The West Side Dive and Tackle booth also looked impressive with their vast array of dive gear.

 Extremly blurry, but this is Hawaii Skin Diver's new Gopro mount with the EyeofMind Housing at the Hanapa'a booth. The mount seems to be made of metal. I think the mount looks pretty cool and its ideal in the sense that it fits pretty much all rail guns.

Also blurry (sorry) New 3d wetsuit by Omer. The picture to make the wetsuit was taken by Kurt Chambers at Rabbit island to replicate the reef in Hawaii for ultimate camouflage. I really like this wetsuit.


Mahalo OGdiver, Kaoru Lovett