Although Nitrox has been used inrecreational diving for almost 25 years, it is still often misunderstood. As an instructor, I’ve found myself correcting countless students who are under the impression that Nitrox enables a person to dive deeper than normal air — this is just one of the common misconceptions about Nitrox diving. Although specific […]
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Scallop Season 2017
With the scallop season opening on Saturday 15th of July in Wellington (Central Region) it is important that we understand the regulations and the safety issues involved for divers in gathering scallops. These regulations do vary around the country so please check before you go diving and note that the Malbourough Sounds (Challenger Region) is closed […]
Taupo Dive Trip
Not many dive trips start in the sunshine and end with a snowball fight! But our latest trip did! Devan – Tertiary Student Well where to start the trip on the way up on the Thursday morning was a bit slow but we all made it fun with the grade A banter. Once we arrived […]
First Night Dive of 2017
Last week our dive club met up after work to explore one of our local dive sites, Scorching Bay. With a juvenile reef system and a maximum depth of 7m you might not expect to see a lot but we caught up with George, our resident conger eel, found a whole nest of crays, saw […]
Oriental Beach Clean Up
Once again we joined the team from Adventure Wellington to conduct a beach and underwater clean up at Oriental Beach – alongside the Tugboat. With divers underwater, volunteers collecting rubbish off the beach and breakwater and others acting as surface support or helping with decrittering the marine debris – 16 people came down […]
Matiu/Somes Island 2017
The start of each new year sees our dive club head out on a great adventure – all the way to the centre of Wellington Harbour! Matiu-Somes Island has an interesting and varied history and is a predator free island with a variety of native flora and fauna making a comeback including Little Blue Penguins, Skinks & […]
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 […]
Diving the Rena
On Sunday the 23rd of October Rachel, Tomo, Shane and I (Jacob) packed the Navara with dive gear and headed to Taupo to dive the Rena the following day. I must say I was very excited and I bet everyone else was too! It was a long drive towards Taupo and I just couldn’t wait for the next day to come. The following day we got up nice and early at 5.30am and got ready to leave to Tauranga. We shortly arrived at the meet up point were we meet Auckland Scuba Dive and their huge boat! We got all our gear on the boat and made our way to the Rena. The trip was very bouncy for Shane and I (being at the front of the bow) for a estimated time of 50 minutes. We tied up to the stern of the ship which sat in 36metres of water, Sadly I wasn’t certified to that depth. We all rolled off to boat into the blue ocean, Tomo and I were buddy’s for both dives. We slowly descended down to 30metres where we could see the ship in front of us but since I cant dive to 40m we had to turn around and have a look at the Reef. The Reef was amazing and full of color, there was schools of fish and sections of steel from the Rena lying around. We spend most of the dive around the 30m-20m mark for quite some time having a look. The second dive we moved over to “Dive site 1” were the Coast Guard was happily enjoying the day in the sun fishing. We dived down to 29meters where we had seen a big section of the wreck. We explored around the wreak and had a look inside. I nearly put my hand on a scorpion fish, thankfully it seen my hand coming and swam away. Sadly I may have been slightly narked and when I saw a huge puffer fish swimming around I must say it was hilarious. We hovered around a sting ray while Tomo took pictures, luckily he didn’t mind our presence. We were coming close to our no Deco limits and our air was getting low so we made our way to the safety stop and warmer waters. It was a great experience and possibly the best dives I’ve ever done. I would like to thank Auckland Scuba Dive and Dive HQ Wellington for this great opportunity and I would definitely recommended diving the Rena for anyone interested in […]
Is it safe to get back in the water this summer?
There we were at Kau Point getting set up for an enjoyable dive (just like we had many times before). Then out of the blue (greenish if you are going by the water colour) we were informed that there was a lost object that needed to be found. Little did we know that our lovely […]
Club Dives
Spring is finally here and the dive club had a busy weekend with a variety of dive activities planned. Saturday morning saw us dive over at Whitireia Park with some new divers experiencing their first fun dive after completing their Open Water Course. The sun was shining as we entered in at the point and […]