Around 8:00 this morning the hurricane had passed the Big Island and was about 300 kilometers or so from Maui. When I went to work this morning around 5:30 it was very, very humid with absolutely no wind at all. Later on in the morning the winds gradually go stronger and were coming out of the south and at times the south east. The weather report said that there could be upwards to 8 meter waves on the south side which is the waikiki beach area! Fortunately they never got that big. The morning boat tours were just able to make it out but everything was canceled in the afternoon.. Whenever a hurricane or strong storm comes to Hawaii, Atlantis is not allowed to operate and must get all the boats and submarines set in a special hurricane setting because of Insurance regulations. This took about a half day to do. Because of the conditions Atlantis will not be operating tomorrow. The temperature has gotten much colder and it has been raining pretty hard from about 3:00 in the afternoon and at 8:00 in the evening it is still raining very hard. So Hawaii got lucky again and we continue with our record of 22 years without a hurricane!