Neptune Charlies Ocean Safaris EcoAdventure Tours in Kona, Hawaii
Mark a few items off your bucket list and join us on The Manta! Our boat is a two-tier, 36 foot custom dive boat, and we are equipped to handle both scuba divers and snorkels of all ages. Join us for seasonal whale watching or book a private charter to explore the crystal blue waters of the Big Island.
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Bottlenose Dolphin Encounter in Kona, Hawaii
On March 16, 2015, Neptune Charlie's Ocean Safaris encountered a group of four Bottlenose Dolphins cruising along the Kona Coast of Hawaii. Experience this amazing footage of these majestic marine mammals!
Film Credit: Janine Bonham in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii
Musical Credit: Heavenly Ascent, Written by John Hunt, Performed by Savory J. Visit for more information about this artist.
Manta Ray Night Dive Kona Hawaii HD
Manta Ray Night Dive in Kona, Big Island, Hawaii. June 29th, 2015 with Neptune Charlies Ocean Safari, dive master Flipper. Great Dive!!! As you can tell we are clearly super excited to be there!
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Black Water Night Dive on Manta Ray Dives of Hawaii
In the dark of night, over 2 miles off the Kona coast in 2,000 feet of water, each diver is suspended from the boat at depths up to 40 feet to drift with the ocean current and the creatures that live here. Come witness for yourself the incredible bioluminescent dance of pelagic sea creatures swimming nightly through these waters.
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Film Credit: Seth Conae. Visit Seth's YouTube Channel to see more of his Epic Encounters.
Musical Credit: Midnight in B.C., Composed and Performed by John Hunt. Please visit for more information about this artist.
Video Editor: Janine Bonham, Kailua-Kona, Hawaii
Poipu beach snorkel - turtle
snorkeling at Poipu beach 8:30am in the morning, being the first person in the sea able to see the turtle right off the beach at the left shelter of the center rock barrier.
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Dash as fast as you can through the subway and dodge the oncoming trains. Help Jake, Tricky and the rest of the crew escape from the inspector and his dog!
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The Vietnam War: Reasons for Failure - Why the U.S. Lost
In the post-war era, Americans struggled to absorb the lessons of the military intervention. About the book:
As General Maxwell Taylor, one of the principal architects of the war, noted, First, we didn't know ourselves. We thought that we were going into another Korean War, but this was a different country. Secondly, we didn't know our South Vietnamese allies... And we knew less about North Vietnam. Who was Ho Chi Minh? Nobody really knew. So, until we know the enemy and know our allies and know ourselves, we'd better keep out of this kind of dirty business. It's very dangerous.
Some have suggested that the responsibility for the ultimate failure of this policy [America's withdrawal from Vietnam] lies not with the men who fought, but with those in Congress... Alternatively, the official history of the United States Army noted that tactics have often seemed to exist apart from larger issues, strategies, and objectives. Yet in Vietnam the Army experienced tactical success and strategic failure... The...Vietnam War...legacy may be the lesson that unique historical, political, cultural, and social factors always impinge on the military...Success rests not only on military progress but on correctly analyzing the nature of the particular conflict, understanding the enemy's strategy, and assessing the strengths and weaknesses of allies. A new humility and a new sophistication may form the best parts of a complex heritage left to the Army by the long, bitter war in Vietnam.
U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger wrote in a secret memo to President Gerald Ford that in terms of military tactics, we cannot help draw the conclusion that our armed forces are not suited to this kind of war. Even the Special Forces who had been designed for it could not prevail. Even Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara concluded that the achievement of a military victory by U.S. forces in Vietnam was indeed a dangerous illusion.
Doubts surfaced as to the effectiveness of large-scale, sustained bombing. As Army Chief of Staff Harold Keith Johnson noted, if anything came out of Vietnam, it was that air power couldn't do the job. Even General William Westmoreland admitted that the bombing had been ineffective. As he remarked, I still doubt that the North Vietnamese would have relented.
The inability to bomb Hanoi to the bargaining table also illustrated another U.S. miscalculation. The North's leadership was composed of hardened communists who had been fighting for independence for thirty years. They had defeated the French, and their tenacity as both nationalists and communists was formidable. Ho Chi Minh is quoted as saying, You can kill ten of my men for every one I kill of yours...But even at these odds you will lose and I will win.
The Vietnam War called into question the U.S. Army doctrine. Marine Corps General Victor H. Krulak heavily criticised Westmoreland's attrition strategy, calling it wasteful of American lives... with small likelihood of a successful outcome. In addition, doubts surfaced about the ability of the military to train foreign forces.
Between 1965 and 1975, the United States spent $111 billion on the war ($686 billion in FY2008 dollars). This resulted in a large federal budget deficit.
More than 3 million Americans served in the Vietnam War, some 1.5 million of whom actually saw combat in Vietnam. James E. Westheider wrote that At the height of American involvement in 1968, for example, there were 543,000 American military personnel in Vietnam, but only 80,000 were considered combat troops. Conscription in the United States had been controlled by the President since World War II, but ended in 1973.
By war's end, 58,220 American soldiers had been killed, more than 150,000 had been wounded, and at least 21,000 had been permanently disabled. According to Dale Kueter, Sixty-one percent of those killed were age 21 or younger. Of those killed in combat, 86.3 percent were white, 12.5 percent were black and the remainder from other races. The youngest American KIA in the war was PFC Dan Bullock, who had falsified his birth certificate and enlisted in the US Marines at age 14 and who was killed in combat at age 15. Approximately 830,000 Vietnam veterans suffered symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder. An estimated 125,000 Americans fled to Canada to avoid the Vietnam draft, and approximately 50,000 American servicemen deserted. In 1977, United States President Jimmy Carter granted a full, complete and unconditional pardon to all Vietnam-era draft dodgers. The Vietnam War POW/MIA issue, concerning the fate of U.S. service personnel listed as missing in action, persisted for many years after the war's conclusion.