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 […]
Marine Life
Find out more about our local marine life and other fascinating sea creatures.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Napier Trip 2013
So this year we headed up to the aquarium, the difference Me the newbie Instructor was running it! Really Claire you trust me to run a trip??? On top of that we had our littlest club mascots Emma and Caitlin joining us and Barbara joining us for an intro dive with the sharks! So needless […]