Diving and all things related to the ocean
Over the Easter weekend our Dive Club made a trip up to Tauranga to do some warmer diving. What a change, to be able to see 20m instead of five. We stayed at a Backpackers called Hugo and Carters. Which was a small, modern backpackers, situated only 5 minutes from the Marina! Day 1. The […]
While not a club trip or even really a dive trip, we did breathe air underwater and we definitely saw sharks! Big ones! The biggest even, it says so in their name – GREAT WHITE! After a couple of days exploring the Caitlins – amazing scenery with beaches, lighthouses and waterfalls and incredible wildlife, think […]
Twelve intrepid punters departed Level 2 Wellington for the freedoms of COVID – free, wifi – free and cellphone coverage-less Fiordland for an incomparable adventure of epic proportions. Reconvening at Queenstown airport, it was all aboard the minibus for Te Anau. Dinner at the Moose restaurant in Te Anau was as close to an elusive […]
As I load up the gear and head to the pool I can’t help but feel nervous and excited all at once. My first Open Water Diver Course!!! Being new and having a full class my boss offer to helps, I gratefully accept all the help I can get and so it begins, we’re off […]
Hey there – my name is Aimey. I am from a small town in South Auckland called Waiuku. I started diving beginning of 2019 where I finished at Rescue Diver at Auckland Scuba. I then went travelling for 6 months to then return to do my Instructor Development Course. I qualified as an instructor in June 2020. […]
Hello! My name is Matt. I come from the South Island in a small town called Mosgiel. I started my Diving journey at the start of 2019 completing my Diploma in Scuba Diving Instruction at Dive Otago. From there I moved to Australia the day after graduation and was working for Eagle Hawk Neck Dive […]
Now when you mention diving in colder waters to divers used to tropical waters of somewhere like Asia you will be met with a shudder and usually a response of ‘no thanks – not for me’ but with so much to see it may be time to try it out. It makes you a […]
Now I will start this off with an admission, somewhere along the branches of my family tree there must be an actual marine mammal as my cold tolerance is exceptionally high and this does vary for everyone so please do bare this in mind when considering your suit. But that out of the way lets […]
Nestled away at 38m underwater in Port Gore is the MS Mikhial Lermontov. The Lermontov is one of the world’s largest wrecks easily accessible for divers. I shot down there with a group of club divers over Labour weekend to explore this behemoth and try to complete my Advanced Wreck Diver training. The history behind […]
After 15 years Tomo has moved on, or at least back, to the family farm in Central Hawkes Bay. While it is always hard to say goodbye to close friends and colleagues we know he is only a phone call away, which is useful with 20+ years of diving knowledge stuck in his head as […]