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 […]
Club Event
Oriental Bay Beach & Underwater Clean Up
Every year we, along with Adventure Wellington knock our heads together to bring people together and do our bit in cleaning up Wellington Harbour. Last month we were lucky enough to have a throng of divers join us as we picked, scraped, lifted and blew bubbles to clean up Oriental Bay. […]
National Aquarium – Napier 2018
Although I have dived at the National Aquarium several times before I had never enjoyed a sleepover in their main display hall so I was really excited to finally get the divers together for this unique experience over Wellington Anniversary Weekend. Divers made their way up on Saturday with some meeting on […]
Matiu-Somes 2017
Matiu-Somes Island may only be 5kms offshore but you feel as if you have truly escaped the hustle and bustle of Wellington! Our last club trip of 2017 saw a group of 14 divers, a mountain of camping and diving gear and even more food caught the ferry across to the island in stunning conditions. […]
White Island 2017
What an awesome trip!! The long drive to Whakatane was sooo worth it. First off, the company was epic from the start. We came from all different walks of life. We all met at the accommodation the night before our dive to get the details sorted. The next morning, we met the skipper Grant at […]
Galapagos Trip 2017- Part 2
Well our club has returned from an epic excursion to the Galapagos Islands, 1000km off the coast of Ecuador. After exploring San Cristobal we excitedly boarded the Galapagos Master after locating our rooms we headed downstairs for our orientation and safety briefings. Not long after that we were finding our spaces on the dive deck […]
Galapagos Trip 2017- Part 1
WOW! What an experience that was. For most of us the Galapagos is the destination of a lifetime and the islands did not disappoint. We arrived in Puerto Baquerizo Moreno, San Christobal, captital of the Galapagos Province after days of travelling. Our first walk along the water front reminded us […]
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 […]