🌊 Kau Point Bioblitz Discover the biodiversity of Te Whanganui-a-Tara / Wellington Harbour. A BioBlitz is an intense short-term event where scientists, volunteers, and community members work together to identify as many species (plants, animals, fungi) as possible within a specific local area. It acts as a rapid assessment of biodiversity to engage the public with nature and provide valuable, […]
Freediving
Intro to Freediving Workshop: Building Skills, Safety, and Ocean Confidence
Keen divers joined Tyla over the weekend for an Intro to Freediving Workshop in Wellington. Starting with learning the foundations of freediving safety, gear, breath-hold techniques and the buddy system, before heading into the water to put it all into practice.
The workshop also covered sustainable kaimoana harvesting, species awareness, and the importance of marine reserves.
Spearguns!
There are a huge number of speargun varieties, each with positives and negatives depending on what they’re being used for. The following is a deep dive into many of the options available on the market. Length To begin with spearguns come in a number of different lengths, ranging from less common 60cm guns to big […]
Mask Colours
There are lots of things to consider when selecting a suitable colour. In this blog Max discusses why colour should be a consideration.
Snorkels- A Deep Dive
Changes to Paua Limits!
Dive HQ’s Monthly Review – November
A vocabulary guide to diving in te reo māori.
Learning to incorporate te reo māori
into everyday usage especially around our favourite hobbies – diving and spearfishing!
Paddy the PADI Freediver!
In July I had the opportunity to take part in the new PADI Freediver and Advanced Freediver courses. This training was amongst some of the most challenging and rewarding experience I had ever taken part in. Enrolling in the course was a pretty last minute decision even though I had wanted to do […]