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 […]
Dive Trips
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Owhiro Bay
For years I have been saying that Owhiro Bay is my favourite dive site and that I have done 100’s of dives here. It turns out I was lying or at least exaggerating. A count of my logbook earlier this year showed I had only done 197 dives here since I started diving in 1997. […]
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 […]
TecFest 2014 – Tecsploring New Frontiers
Road Trip! Dive HQ Wellington’s first dive was planned the Waikato River – this is an awesome dive starting in town by Cherry Island and finishing down a Reid’s Farm. The river drops away in parts to 15m before rising back to 2m around the islands which makes for some wicked current and eddies. The rock […]
Poor Knights – March 2014
Cyclone Lusi move over we are coming North! Not even the weather could dampen our spirits as we prepared for our live aboard trip to the Poor Knights with Oceanblue Adventures. While some chose to fly north the rest of us piled into the car and headed to Taupo for our first dives on the […]
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 […]
The Mikhail Lermontov
This Russian Cruise ship sunk on the 16th of February 1986 as she tried to take a short cut between a rock and a hard place. The crew tried to reach safety along the beach in Port Gore but the ship settled back down into the bay. Of the 740 passengers and crew aboard only […]
Upcoming Dive Courses – Setember to November 2013
Check out our course dates for the upcoming months – to book on any of them please Contact Us. Starts Classroom dates Pool dates Openwater dates Openwater Diver 30/09/2013 30, 2, 7, 9 Oct 30, 2, 7, 9 Oct 12 & 13 Oct More 14/10/2013 14, 16, 21, 23 Oct 14, 16, 21, 23 Oct […]
Safari Lodge – Fiji 2013
Tomo went last year for the Dive HQ conference, our Divemaster Kim completed her internship here in January and so I felt I was missing out and planned our annual club dive trip with Safari Lodge at Nananu-i-ra Island Fiji. The adventure started with a direct flight to Nadi, a van ride north and an […]
Rebreathers!
On Friday the 10th of May this year I attended the first ever New Zealand TeCFest. By June 30 just seven weeks later I was certified on my own closed circuit rebreather. Claire has asked me to write a few paragraphs about how this all came about so here goes. Prior to TecFest I was […]