After a successful event 2 years ago the Police National Dive Squad approached us about running another information evening for our dive club, about the role they play in New Zealand & how we has divers can keep ourselves safer in the water. “As part of our goals to making New Zealand a safer […]
Club Event
COME WITH US AND DIVE THE LERMONTOV
Come dive the Mikhail Lermontov one of New Zealand’s most iconic wrecks, just a quick hop over Cook Straight and staying at the Go Dive lodge. We will be heading over the afternoon of Thursday 25th April (ANZAC Day) diving Friday, Saturday and Sunday morning coming back to Wellington on the 6pm ferry. This […]
Ha’apai Tonga 2018
With a week to go the divers are keenly packing and struggling to keep their luggage within the allowances. With a day to go we are told that our internal flight has been cancelled – oh no! We had two options stay at home or go on an adventure. We chose the adventure of course. So […]
How To Choose a Dive Site
Choosing the right dive site for the day is the number one way to make or break a day of diving. Every diver out there would probably agree that choosing the best dive site gets easier with experience, but very rarely does anyone explain what to consider in choosing a site. For me there are […]
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 […]
24 Hour Dive Challenge 2018!
Once again our local divers joined forces to support the Wellington Volunteer Coastguard and participated in the 24 Hour Dive Challenge. 53 divers conducted 44 dives, logging 104 individual dives in 24 hours and raised over $2500 (to date) Teams of divers entered the waters of Scorching Bay, Wellington in a […]
Wrecks & Reefs 2018
The name says it all really – this club dive trip to Northland was designed to explore the local wrecks and reef with dives planned for the Rainbow Warrior, Canterbury and Waikato Wrecks as well as a couple of dives at the Poor Knights. I was excited […]
Where’s My Buddy?!
Lost buddy procedure Twelve meters deep, fifteen minutes into a dive and you lose your dive buddy. What do you do? The lost buddy procedure is something that we all learnt as Open Water Divers but does everyone understand what, why, when and how this is done? Wellington’s conditions can be tough, and with limited […]
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. […]
National Aquarium – Napier 2018
Although I have dived at the National Aquarium several times before I had never enjoyed a sleepover in their main display hall so I was really excited to finally get the divers together for this unique experience over Wellington Anniversary Weekend. Divers made their way up on Saturday with some meeting on […]