Let’s face it, who as a diver hasn’t been diving off the shores of a tropical island somewhere and taken a look at the dive instructors/divemasters and thought ‘you lucky buggers’ For me it was in New Caledonia & I said to my buddy ‘why the hell am I not doing this everyday’ Cut […]
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Zeagle Onyx II Monthly Madness Prize Draw
The Zeagle Onyx II Regulator is an outstanding piece of kit that outperforms many in its class. The black chrome plated marine brass first stage regulator is a balanced diaphragm design which is inherently environmentally sealed. That means there is no risk of water, sand, salt or grit entering your first stage through the […]
Monthly Madness Prize Draw – PADI Rescue Diver Course
Scuba diving is a great sport and like any activity it is not without its risks, and that is what attracts some divers. Other divers pick up the sport for the weightlessness, to see the beautiful marine life, or as an added activity for their vacations. These are all great reasons and they bring a […]
Ha’apai Tonga 2018
With a week to go the divers are keenly packing and struggling to keep their luggage within the allowances. With a day to go we are told that our internal flight has been cancelled – oh no! We had two options stay at home or go on an adventure. We chose the adventure of course. So […]
Where’s My Buddy?!
Lost buddy procedure Twelve meters deep, fifteen minutes into a dive and you lose your dive buddy. What do you do? The lost buddy procedure is something that we all learnt as Open Water Divers but does everyone understand what, why, when and how this is done? Wellington’s conditions can be tough, and with limited […]
Paddy the PADI Freediver!
In July I had the opportunity to take part in the new PADI Freediver and Advanced Freediver courses. This training was amongst some of the most challenging and rewarding experience I had ever taken part in. Enrolling in the course was a pretty last minute decision even though I had wanted to do […]
Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays Everyone
We would love to thank all our divers for making 2016 such an amazing year. We headed out diving 170+ days, logging a dive a day on average which is an impressive effort for Wellington diving. The year kicks off with our club divers staying over on Matiu-Somes Islands, exploring the wharves and then hunting […]
TecFest New Zealand 2016
On Friday the 6th of May Rachel and I (Jacob) headed to MiCamp for TecFest which was at Lake Taupo. It was a long trip and we had the music blasting, I even managed to get a quick snooze before all the diving started! We got to TecFest just after the first talk and we got our goody bags. We were entered into spot prizes and had […]
Club Dive Day!
As one of my Dive Master events I was planning to run the Pajama Party Night Dive but after cancelling it again due to weather I ran a club dive day instead. We had a recreational diver joining us as Claire was running the Open Water Diver Course with her students. It was a sunny […]
Life as a Young Diver – Emma
The reson why I started diving was that my Mum and Dad had come home with pictures of them surrounded by fish, I was of the opinion that I need to do that! They looked like they had fun so I imagined myself in amongest all the fish. My first Open Water dive was sceary, […]