On Saturday the 1st of August 2015, we celebrated Dive & Ski HQ’s 10th Birthday! The event was held at Princess bay on Wellingtons South Coast. The conditions were near perfect with moderate Northerly winds, half metre swells and even a bit of sunshine! We had a good turnout with about 14 people joining us […]
General Interest
Diving and all things related to the ocean
Careers Expo
Do you know what you want to do as a career? The students from Hutt Valley High School have a better idea after their Careers Expo yesterday. A wide variety of Universities, Polytechs and Private Training Establishments (PTE’s) including Dive HQ attended the event. This event gave the students […]
Evans Bay Beach & Underwater Clean Up
Saturday 11th July 2015 Sea Shepard Wellington organises monthly clean ups of the beach at Evans Bay in Wellington and Dive & Ski HQ Petone like to get involved in them as often as possible. Although only a few divers had put their hands up to get involved in the event there were many people helping to […]
Friends for Sharks Event
Late last year we received an email from a new shark and marine conservation cause, Friends for Sharks, offering us a free talk about sharks as part of their world tour. “Friends for Sharks is a marine conservation cause working to support charities and increase worldwide awareness of the plight of sharks” Friends for Sharks […]
MAANZ Shipwreck Show & Tell
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 […]
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 […]
Lachie Makene – SCUBA Instructor
For as long as I can remember I’ve been spending time in, on and under the water. I spent countless years roaming beaches and exploring places that few ever have the chance to. For me diving is a real passion, it is something I want to be able to share with anyone who is willing. […]
Simon Byers – Instructor
I started scuba diving here in Wellington in 2004 and fell in love with the sport so I continued to learn more about diving and became a Dive Master in 2010. This got me on the road to helping with training and looking after fellow divers as well as doing lots of fun diving around Wellington […]
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 […]
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. […]