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 […]
Club Event
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 […]
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 […]
Poor Knights November 2014
It’s that time of year again when Claire heads North under the guise of work and takes members of the dive club with her as accessories! The first dive of the road trip is a drift dive down the Waikato River, with eddys, rapid currents, awesome rock formations, hot pools and both Brown and Rainbow […]
Palau 2014
For years Palau has been a dream destination for our dive club – with more flight options and a better package price this year we finally got to go. 30+ hours of travelling later and still another flight to go we were all hoping it was all worth it. 24 hours later and heading underwater […]
24 Hour Dive Challenge
24 Hour Dive Challenge – 29th & 30th November 2014 This is our biggest, most challenging & most exciting event of the year! We have run the 24 Hour Dive Challenge now for 2 years and in that time have raised over $6500 for the Wellington Volunteer Coastguard as […]
Scallops
The scallop season has opened in here Wellington and we celebrated with a sneaky afternoon dive on Tuesday 15th of July . Leaving work early Tomo and Claire and a couple of other lucky divers met at one of our local beaches where several tasty looking scallops and been seen on earlier dives. Heading out […]