Sidemount diving has been around for a long time. It has always been used in the secretive world of the extreme cave and wreck explorers, allowing them to get into tighter restrictions inaccessible to back mounted divers. Nowadays sidemount is becoming popular with open water diving for several reasons. […]
Dive Course
Gateway Open Water Course
There are certainly plenty of course options for students these days and for a group of students from Hutt Valley High School keen to join the Royal New Zealand Navy the opportunity to complete their PADI Open Water Diver Course was too good to pass up. After collecting their packs and doing their homework (well […]
Hollis Explorer Rebreather
Rebreathers are making headway into mainstream diving and the Hollis Explorer is perfectly designed with the recreational diver in mind. The Explorer is an electronic semi-closed rebreather (eSCR) an intelligent hybrid that is compact, lightweight and extremely easy to use. The Explorer is unique in using a single gas blend of 32-40% Nitrox is electronically controlled to […]
PADI Self-Reliant Diver
This Distinctive Specialty is designed for experienced divers who may decide to dive on their own, particularly popular with photographers, or for professional divers, such including Instructors and Divemasters who may not have an assigned buddy capable of assisting them in an emergency. The course focus is preparing the self-reliant diver with dive planning and […]