Kokua Line: Why is it so hard to get a reservation to snorkel at Oahu’s Hanauma Bay?

Question: Please investigate why the Hanauma Bay reservation system, operating now for a few weeks, is not working properly. It seems that there is something that smells fishy (and we are not even snorkeling yet) or there are some incredibly fast applicants that remove all available reservations within three minutes of opening the site. This is very suspicious to me and many others who are unable to visit the newly opening park under the newly opened reservation system. My experience is to be at the website (pros.hnl.info/hanauma-bay) at 6:59 a.m., wait for the day to become available at 7:00 a.m., and find that within two or three minutes all reservations are taken for the newly available day. How can that happen? Is there a way to track how this can occur? (Is it) virtually impossible to get a reservation typed in fast enough before it is scooped by robo-callers or Haunama-hacker of some sort? …

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