We have been busy diving around Wellington and down in the sounds.
There are plenty of other dives and activities planned for the month ahead so we hope to see you soon.
Clean Up Event
From fishing sinkers to dive weights!
Two of our club divers have removed over 900kg of fishing line, hooks, lures and sinkers from Wellington Harbour and made dive weights.
Why learn to dive with Dive HQ Wellington
You should learn to dive with Dive HQ Wellington as we provide exceptional instruction, opportunities to explore and engage with other divers and promote conservation.
Earth Day 2018
Sunday 22nd April was Earth Day and the focus this year was to reduce plastic usage and definitely plastic wasteage! It seemed like a good excuse to organise another clean up dive for the club and with some keen divers in tow we headed to Shark Bay in […]
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. […]
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. […]
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 […]
Matiu/Somes Island 2017
The start of each new year sees our dive club head out on a great adventure – all the way to the centre of Wellington Harbour! Matiu-Somes Island has an interesting and varied history and is a predator free island with a variety of native flora and fauna making a comeback including Little Blue Penguins, Skinks & […]
Club Dives
Spring is finally here and the dive club had a busy weekend with a variety of dive activities planned. Saturday morning saw us dive over at Whitireia Park with some new divers experiencing their first fun dive after completing their Open Water Course. The sun was shining as we entered in at the point and […]
Adopting a Dive Site
Why adopt a dive site at all? This is Project AWARE’s latest campaign to tackle marine debris and track the amount of debris that enters a dive site over time. We have committed to dive at our adopted dive site every month for a year and submit data on the rubbish collected. We have selected […]