Road Trip! Dive HQ Wellington’s first dive was planned the Waikato River – this is an awesome dive starting in town by Cherry Island and finishing down a Reid’s Farm. The river drops away in parts to 15m before rising back to 2m around the islands which makes for some wicked current and eddies. The rock […]
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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 […]
Poor Knights – March 2014
Cyclone Lusi move over we are coming North! Not even the weather could dampen our spirits as we prepared for our live aboard trip to the Poor Knights with Oceanblue Adventures. While some chose to fly north the rest of us piled into the car and headed to Taupo for our first dives on the […]
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 […]
Matiu/Somes Island 2014
The forecast for this year’s trip was definitely not the best but Jo, the DoC Ranger at Matiu/Somes had a cunning plan to get us diving the southern end of the island – a usually inaccessible dive site. We were keen! 16club members, both divers and non-divers, headed across on the ferry and after going […]
24 Hour Dive Challenge
Like so many great ideas the journey towards this year’s 24 Hour Dive Challenge was decided of a few pints. At the end of last year’s pack up Claire, Brian, Stuart and I celebrated with a drink and decided there and then that this should be an annual event. Slowly the wheels began to turn […]
Halloween Dive 2013
This time last year one of our divers sent us this link… And so inspired this year’s Halloween theme – Underwater Pumpkin Carving There were a lot of predive issues to consider… What size/shape/colour of pumpkin do I want? Do pumpkins float? (Yes) What tools do I need? (Dive knives worked well as did a […]
The Mikhail Lermontov
This Russian Cruise ship sunk on the 16th of February 1986 as she tried to take a short cut between a rock and a hard place. The crew tried to reach safety along the beach in Port Gore but the ship settled back down into the bay. Of the 740 passengers and crew aboard only […]
Petone Wharf Clean Up
Unfortunately a worldwide problem but our divers are helping to make a difference locally. September is officially Project AWARE’s Debris Month of Action with 100’s of underwater clean up schedule by dive stores and clubs. It also coincides with Keep New Zealand Beautiful Week. So once more into the breach… We headed back to Petone […]