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 […]
General Interest
Diving and all things related to the ocean
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 […]
Lachie Makene – SCUBA Instructor
For as long as I can remember I’ve been spending time in, on and under the water. I spent countless years roaming beaches and exploring places that few ever have the chance to. For me diving is a real passion, it is something I want to be able to share with anyone who is willing. […]
Simon Byers – Instructor
I started scuba diving here in Wellington in 2004 and fell in love with the sport so I continued to learn more about diving and became a Dive Master in 2010. This got me on the road to helping with training and looking after fellow divers as well as doing lots of fun diving around Wellington […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]