MAANZ – Maritime Archaeological Association of New Zealand A group of shipwreck enthusiasts gathered at the City & Sea Museum last week to hear about NZ wrecks and learn about some of the artifacts that have been recovered from them. The presentation started with an overview of some of our oldest wrecks, including […]
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Scallops
Scallops (Pecten Novaezealandiae) Scallops, common name ‘The New Zealand Scallop’, is a bivalve mollusc of the family Pectinidee, the scallops Pecten Novaezealandiae is a completely free-living, mobile and somewhat migratory. Scallops can swim with brief bursts of speed by clapping their shells together (Jet Propulsion) The two valves are asymmetric. The left valve is convex […]
Matiu – Somes Island 2015
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]