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 […]
Conservation
Discussions on Project AWARE, beach & underwater cleans and how divers can help the environment.
Dr Jane Goodall
Claire was fortunate to attend Dr Jane Goodall’s presentation in Wellington as part of her 80th celebrations. Dr Jane Goodall started with a series of hoots, highlights of her childhood and of her dreams of working in Africa. Finally after meeting and work with Louis Leakey, Jane started her now famous research of the Chimpanzees […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
NZ Shark Week
As part of NZ Shark Week Te Papa hosted some free presentations from our leading shark experts. We were initially given an overview of sharks – what are they, how are they identified and who are their close relatives? New Zealand has ~110 shark species, ~70 rays and ~ 12 chimeras (ghost sharks). The exact […]