Discover what scuba diving involves, how PADI diver certifications work and how to earn your Open Water Diver scuba certification with Dive HQ Wellington. Start your underwater adventure today. Have you ever wondered what it’s like to breathe underwater? To glide effortlessly through forests of kelp, discover hidden reefs, or come face-to-face with curious marine […]
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Meet Phoebe – Our Newest (& Youngest!) Instructor
If you’ve been diving with Dive HQ Wellington over the past six months, there’s a good chance you’ll already recognise me. I’ve been around the shop, helping out, learning the ropes, teaching courses and spending as much time in the water as possible. Now I’m excited to officially introduce myself as one of your instructors! […]
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.
Meet Camilla – If you haven’t already!
Meet Camilla and discover what keeps her motivated as she went from club diver to one of our most active dive instructors
Dive Club Wellington October
Thinking about joining Dive Club Wellington – we think that’s a great idea. With lots of dive buddies, regular club dives, trips and other activities to keep you diving!
Key SCUBA Skills
We wanted to highlight some of the key skills in scuba diving, and how to achieve mastery of them. There’s a lot to think about while you dive, but we’ve outlined 3 skills that we believe to be the most important, starting off before you even get into the water:
Pre-dive communication
Equalising
Buoyancy Control.
Pete’s MSDT Journey
Master Scuba Diver Trainer, or MSDT, is a rating that PADI Open Water Scuba Instructors can apply for after reaching certain milestones. Specifically, an instructor has to be able to teach five specialty courses, as well having certified 25 PADI divers. It’s an extra step above the first instructor rating, which shows that an instructor […]
Introducing Max
Introducing Max – our newest team member and Dive Instructor.
Pop in store or join us for a dive and meet him in person.
Introducing Pete!
Explore NZ Underwater!
You learnt to dive overseas or only dive on holiday – why is that? Perhaps you think NZ is too cold, lacks colour or is just not exciting enough NZ water is coldThere is no disputing that we dive in temperate waters with temperatures in single digits down south up to 25 C in Northland. […]