24 Hour Dive Challenge – 29th & 30th November 2014 This is our biggest, most challenging & most exciting event of the year! We have run the 24 Hour Dive Challenge now for 2 years and in that time have raised over $6500 for the Wellington Volunteer Coastguard as […]
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Scallops
The scallop season has opened in here Wellington and we celebrated with a sneaky afternoon dive on Tuesday 15th of July . Leaving work early Tomo and Claire and a couple of other lucky divers met at one of our local beaches where several tasty looking scallops and been seen on earlier dives. Heading out […]
Dr Jane Goodall
Claire was fortunate to attend Dr Jane Goodall’s presentation in Wellington as part of her 80th celebrations. Dr Jane Goodall started with a series of hoots, highlights of her childhood and of her dreams of working in Africa. Finally after meeting and work with Louis Leakey, Jane started her now famous research of the Chimpanzees […]
PADI Instructor Development Update
Even as Instructors we need to continually refresh and update our skills. So Monday finally saw Claire on a flight to Auckland (after several delays and a wind induced flight cancellation the night before) She headed across town to the Newmarket Pool to catch up with Colin Melrose, PADI’s Instructor Development Manager and a dozen […]
TecFest 2014 – Tecsploring New Frontiers
Road Trip! Dive HQ Wellington’s first dive was planned the Waikato River – this is an awesome dive starting in town by Cherry Island and finishing down a Reid’s Farm. The river drops away in parts to 15m before rising back to 2m around the islands which makes for some wicked current and eddies. The rock […]
Evans Bay Beach & Clean Up
The guys from Sea Shepherd joined our Petone Wharf Clean Up event last September and since then we have been working towards combining for another big clean up event in the Wellington area. Unfortunately the weather wasn’t looking too conducive for diving so we cancelled the club dive. However on arrival at the beach Rachel […]
Good News – Bad News
The good news… Paddy has been working hard towards his PADI Staff Instructor rating and should be recognised for his great achievement – Congratulations Paddy! He can now use his knowledge and experience to teach others how to teach others to dive. The bad news… Paddy ihas left us and headed overseas on that great […]
Poor Knights – March 2014
Cyclone Lusi move over we are coming North! Not even the weather could dampen our spirits as we prepared for our live aboard trip to the Poor Knights with Oceanblue Adventures. While some chose to fly north the rest of us piled into the car and headed to Taupo for our first dives on the […]
Oriental Bay Beach & Underwater Clean Up
We were invited to join Adventure Wellington and help them run this annual event. When we arrived and had a recce around the site the beach and shallows along the breakwater looked reasonably rubbish free but then we got started… As the divers, kayakers and shore crew gathered along the waterfront we split into groups […]
Matiu/Somes Island 2014
The forecast for this year’s trip was definitely not the best but Jo, the DoC Ranger at Matiu/Somes had a cunning plan to get us diving the southern end of the island – a usually inaccessible dive site. We were keen! 16club members, both divers and non-divers, headed across on the ferry and after going […]