Our first club event of 2015 was held on Matiu – Somes Island right here in Wellington Harbour. Each year we head over to the island loaded with dive gear and food to complete a beach and underwater clean up with DoC. This year we started with a beach clean up along the north eastern […]
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Poor Knights November 2014
It’s that time of year again when Claire heads North under the guise of work and takes members of the dive club with her as accessories! The first dive of the road trip is a drift dive down the Waikato River, with eddys, rapid currents, awesome rock formations, hot pools and both Brown and Rainbow […]
Owhiro Bay
For years I have been saying that Owhiro Bay is my favourite dive site and that I have done 100’s of dives here. It turns out I was lying or at least exaggerating. A count of my logbook earlier this year showed I had only done 197 dives here since I started diving in 1997. […]
Gateway Open Water Course
There are certainly plenty of course options for students these days and for a group of students from Hutt Valley High School keen to join the Royal New Zealand Navy the opportunity to complete their PADI Open Water Diver Course was too good to pass up. After collecting their packs and doing their homework (well […]
Hollis Explorer Rebreather
Rebreathers are making headway into mainstream diving and the Hollis Explorer is perfectly designed with the recreational diver in mind. The Explorer is an electronic semi-closed rebreather (eSCR) an intelligent hybrid that is compact, lightweight and extremely easy to use. The Explorer is unique in using a single gas blend of 32-40% Nitrox is electronically controlled to […]
Palau 2014
For years Palau has been a dream destination for our dive club – with more flight options and a better package price this year we finally got to go. 30+ hours of travelling later and still another flight to go we were all hoping it was all worth it. 24 hours later and heading underwater […]
PADI Self-Reliant Diver
This Distinctive Specialty is designed for experienced divers who may decide to dive on their own, particularly popular with photographers, or for professional divers, such including Instructors and Divemasters who may not have an assigned buddy capable of assisting them in an emergency. The course focus is preparing the self-reliant diver with dive planning and […]
24 Hour Dive Challenge
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 […]
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 […]